Baby Boomer Sports The Last 50 Years
It couldn’t have been more than a few minutes later when Yankee catcher Yogi Berra lashed a line drive toward the left-field corner of Yankee Stadium. With two men on base and Brooklyn clinging to a 2-0 lead in the sixth, my heart—indeed, the hearts of all proper Bostonians—filled with dread at the prospect of a Yankee comeback. Dodgers outfielder Sandy Amoros raced after the ball and, with a desperate lunge, speared it near the foul pole, then fired it to the infield, where the runner was doubled off first base....