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October 13, 1960: The hardscrabble Pirates were a hungry squad, led by Roberto Clemente, Bill Mazeroski, and a colorful bunch of overachievers who hit singles and rode solid fielding and pitching to the franchise's first World Series appearance in 35 years. The Yankees, lordly and corporate, were making their 12th trip to the World Series in 15 years and, through the managing of Casey Stengel, power hitting, and immense talent, usually found a way to win. Featuring such legends as Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, and Roger Maris, the Yankees had outscored the Pirates 46-16 through six games -- only to go down, 10-9, when Mazeroski became the only player ever to decide a World Series Game 7 with a walk-off home run. From extensive personal interviews with those who were there, along with newspaper, radio, and television accounts, Reisler reconstructs this fall classic pitch by pitch, from analysis of managerial tactics and the chatter of the players on the field to the lively atmosphere within the ballpark and throughout the country. The result is the feeling of being right there from the seemingly predictable start to the truly unbelievable finish of the best game ever.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Da Capo Press; First Trade Paper ed edition (February 3, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0306817551
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0306817557
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.85 x 8.25 inches
Reviewer: ToeKneeArmAss
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best Book Ever about "The Best Game Ever" - read it while watching the DVD!
Review: This is the absolute best record of what is without question the most exciting and pivotal game in any baseball season ever. Reisler takes us through the game at-bat by at-bat, in some cases even pitch by pitch, and interweaves a narrative of the city of Pittsburgh, the history of the Pirates, and the two squads doing battle. His writing is well-paced and engaging, and evokes a nostalgia for the era and especially for Forbes Field.I am particularly impressed as Reisler does this without access to a visual record of the game, as the book was written before the only known video recording of the game was discovered in Bing Crosby's wine cellar in late 2009 - thirty-two years after Crosby's death. I recently read this while simultaneously watching a DVD of that game ([...]l). Lots of use of the pause button was required of course, but it enriched my experience of both the book and the game immensely. The game was so fast-paced by today's standards (imagine a World Series game 7 featuring several nail-biting situations, multiple trips to the mound, and nine different pitchers ... that lasted 2 hours and 36 minutes!) that slowing it down to the pace of Reisler's account allowed me to savor and appreciate it all the more.You don't have to be a Pirates fan to appreciate this - in fact, if you don't love this book then you don't love baseball.

Reviewer: Tigerjohn
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Memories
Review: I enjoyed the book tremendously! I learned details of the '60 Pirates that I previously had not known. The book would be very interesting for any baseball fan. I sent a copy of the book to my younger brother, a '46 model, so that he could relive the thrill of "Best Game Ever"..

Reviewer: Darrel Drumm
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great game, good book.
Review: No, I didn't see or hear the Maz homer. I did see the Kubek bad hop in school (6th grade), but when school was out, we were shooed away and by the time I'd pedaled home, it was over.This book is a nice but not great recounting of that game. There were mistakes in the writing and proofing, I was able to get around them. I discovered things I didn't know about the game, such as that the Doctor was asked to come to the Stadium so Kubek could stay with the team. The play-by-play, many times, pitch-by-pitch accounting of the game added to my knowledge. I just wish it were better written and more accurate in it's details.

Reviewer: Kindle Customer JIM
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great to relive these moments from my youth
Review: Great to relive these moments from my youth. A great buy for any "baby boomer" even if you're not from Pittsburgh.

Reviewer: Barry Sparks
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A test to a reader's attention span
Review: Using one game as a basis for a book, even if it is one of the greatest games ever, is a challenge for any writer. Author Jim Reisler takes an inning-by-inning approach to the seventh game of the 1960 World Series between the Pirates and Yankees. Of course, every serious baseball fan knows it's the game the Pirates' Bill Mazeroski hit a homer in the bottom of the ninth to win the Series.Because the game is so well-known, there's little suspense. Like some other readers, I occasionally felt like just flipping ahead to the chapters about the eighth and ninth innings. Reisler sandwiches a lot of Pirates' history in between innings. But Reisler tests the reader's attention span as he sometimes writes 20-plus pages before returning to the account of the game.Reisler includes some interesting nuggets, but he also commits a number of glaring errors, as noted by other reviewers. The book is heavily tilted toward the Pittsburgh perspective. Pirates fans will delight in the book, while others may find it less satisfying.

Reviewer: Buzz
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Pirates Best Victory
Review: Since I was physically at the seventh game of the 1960 World Series, it was most enjoyable to watch and relive the excitement of that event. Indeed, it was "The Greatest Game Ever Played". The DVD was great and very well done.

Reviewer: Hewlett S. Byrd
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Five Stars
Review: nice purchasse

Reviewer: G. Haneke
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not quite perfect
Review: As a dedicated Yankees fan, I would call the 7th game of the 1960 World Series "The Most Disappointing Game Ever". The author has done a very good job re-creating the drama of that game. The only reason I did not give this book 5 stars is a few annoying mistakes. For example, the author describes Yankees Yogi Berra and John Blanchard as right-handed hitters,when clearly they were both lefties. He also says Mickey Mantle was 65 at his death when in fact he was 63. Those simple errors make you wonder what else he got wrong.Nevertheless, this is a good book and I recommend it.