Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink, by Kevin Cook (Henry Holt, 2019) Wildest ever? Baseball on the brink? It’s this type of hyperbole that has made a skeptic out of a trusting young lad. Wild, certainly, the way this 1979 contest between the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs […]
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