The Machine

  at Field of Dreams, 265–74

  and games in April, 66–69, 70, 73

  and games in August, 177, 183, 185, 189, 191, 193, 194, 195, 198, 200

  and games in July, 157, 168, 169, 175–76

  and games in June, 127–30, 136, 144–46

  and games in May, 97, 102, 106, 113, 120, 121

  and games in September, 201, 204

  and Great Eight, 263–64

  and his father, see Rose, Harry “Big Pete”

  in the lineup, 55, 109, 154, 157, 158

  and memorabilia, 194, 265, 266–67

  and Morgan, 4–5, 7, 41–45, 93, 128, 273–74

  and 1969 season, 12

  and 1973 season, 20, 67, 124, 205

  and 1974 season, 63, 64, 67, 144

  and 1975 season, 269, 276–77

  on opening day, 55, 60, 64

  personal traits of, 90, 94, 156, 268

  and playoffs (1975), 214, 215–16

  and reporters, 30–31, 93, 94, 162, 195, 245, 255, 268

  and rules, 60, 115–16

  salary of, 18–21, 262, 267

  and Sparky, 15, 88–91

  as superstar, 25, 26, 27, 53, 101, 105, 209, 237

  suspension of, 262, 266, 267, 269–71, 273, 277

  and team members, 90, 92, 121, 156, 161, 186, 214, 244, 245, 263–64, 267–68, 271–72

  and third base, 88–91, 93, 95–97, 105, 110, 112, 193, 227, 274

  winning at all cost, 44, 134, 145, 178–79

  and World Series Game 1, 225–26, 227, 228

  and World Series Game 2, 228–29, 230, 233

  and World Series Game 3, 235, 236

  and World Series Game 4, 239

  and World Series Game 5, 243, 244

  and World Series Game 6, 249, 250, 253, 254, 274

  and World Series Game 7, 1–7, 256, 257, 258, 259, 274

  and writing books, 144, 145, 146, 266

  Rose, Pete Jr., 171, 173

  Roseboro, Johnny, 150

  Ruby, Jeff, 47–48, 95, 139–40, 147, 195

  Rudi, Joe, 192

  Ruffian (horse), 158, 159–60, 161

  Ruth, Babe, 39, 62, 93, 94, 122–23, 269, 274

  bat used by, 163

  in Hall of Fame, 158

  and World Series (1932), 255

  Sackler, Mark, 99, 101

  Sada, Pepe, 182

  Safer, Morley, 188

  St. Louis Cardinals, 18, 195, 248

  San Diego Padres, 56, 99, 158, 160

  San Francisco Giants, 56, 84, 86, 87–88, 180, 188

  Sanguillen, Manny, 208, 209

  Sauer, Hank, 34

  Scheider, Roy, 141

  Scherger, George “Shug,” 6, 71, 74, 75, 85, 95

  Schoendienst, Red, 199

  Scott, Michael, 126

  Scott, Tony, 109

  Seaver, Tom, 168–70

  Secretariat (horse), 159

  Sedaka, Neil, 224

  Seiko Company, 100, 102, 103

  Seitz, Peter, 127

  Seitz Decision, 127

  Sells, Dave, 202

  Shepard, Larry, 180

  Shore, Dinah, 22

  Simmons, Lon, 34

  Simpson, O. J., 273

  Sinatra, Frank, 135

  Singer, Bill, 11

  Sipple, Oliver, 203–4

  Slaughter, Enos, 173

  Smith, Red, 236, 246

  Sneva, Tom, 118

  Snider, Duke, 158

  Spahn, Warren, 66

  Speaker, Tris, 269

  Speed, Horace, 87–88

  Speier, Chris, 82, 86, 88, 180

  Springsteen, Bruce, 197–98

  Stargell, Willie, 163, 192, 214

  Stengel, Casey, 187, 216, 276

  Stockton, Dick, 232

  Strom, Brent, 191

  Sutton, Don, 70, 72

  Sweasy, Charles J., 50

  Taft, Robert A., 54–55

  Taft, William Howard, 54

  Tata, Terry, 106

  Tekulve, Kent, 209

  Thomas, B. J., 77

  Thomas, Derrel, 180

  Thomson, Bobby, 171, 255

  Thornton, Andre, 133

  Tiant, Luis, 221

  and World Series Game 1, 224–26, 227, 228

  and World Series Game 4, 239–40

  and World Series Game 6, 249–50

  Tiant, Luis Sr., 224–25

  Title IX, 126, 159

  Tolan, Bobby, 115

  Tootsie Rolls, 100, 103–4

  Trevino, Lee, 149

  Trillo, Manny, 136

  Truman, Harry S, 158

  Turner, Ted, 12

  Uecker, Bob, 58

  Underwood, Tom, 105–6

  Unser, Bobby, 118

  Updike, John, 221

  Vasquez, Jacinto, 160

  Vietnam War, 22, 54, 85, 118

  Vukovich, John “Balsa”:

  in the lineup, 55, 56

  sent to the minors, 114

  and Sparky, 26–28, 55, 56, 71–73, 74–76, 86, 88, 90, 91, 92, 114, 193

  Wagner, Dick, 19–21, 38, 46, 195, 203, 211, 262

  Walker, Harry “the Hat,” 42

  Waterman, Fred A., 50

  Watson, Bob, 103–4, 157

  Wepner, Chuck, 40–41

  Westrum, Wes, 87, 184

  Weyer, Lee, 143

  Wight, Bill, 149

  Williams, Bill, 18–19

  Williams, Charlie, 84

  Williams, Earl, 138

  Williams, Robin, 254

  Williams, Ted, 248, 255

  Wilson, Don, 56

  Wise, Rick, 220

  women, and Title IX, 126, 159

  World Series (1918), 2, 248

  World Series (1919), 51

  World Series (1932), 255

  World Series (1940), 51

  World Series (1946), 248

  World Series (1954), 205

  World Series (1967), 248

  World Series (1969), 168

  World Series (1970), 15, 82, 256

  World Series (1972), 15–16, 218, 256

  World Series (1975):

  Game 1, 223–28

  Game 2, 228–33

  Game 3, 233–37, 238, 274

  Game 4, 238–41

  Game 5, 241–45

  Game 6, 2–3, 245–55, 274

  Game 7, 1–9, 256–59, 261, 274

  World Series (1976), 261

  World Series (1979), 262

  Wright, George, 50, 51

  Wright, Harry, 50

  Wynn, Jimmy, 74

  Yastrzemski, Carl, 221

  in Hall of Fame, 262

  and 1967 season, 227, 248

  and umpires, 235–36

  and World Series (1975), 227, 229, 231, 233, 235–36, 253, 259

  Young, Cy, 269

  Young, Dick, 62, 225

  Zamora, Oscar, 136

  Zimmer, Don, 3, 243, 252

  Zisk, Richie, 214

  About the Author

  JOE POSNANSKI has been a sports columnist at the Kansas City Star since 1996 and is a contributing writer to Sports Illustrated. He has twice been named the best sports columnist in America by the Associated Press Sports Editors. His previous book, The Soul of Baseball, was the winner of the prestigious 2007 Casey Award for the best baseball book of the year. He has also won the nation’s top honors as a feature writer and project writer, and he has been nominated for awards by the Associated Press Sports Editors nineteen times. In 2004, he became the first sportswriter to be nominated in four separate categories. Posnanski and his wife live in Kansas City, Missouri, with their two daughters.

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  Table of Contents

  Cover

  Title Page

  Dedication

  Contents

  Prologue

  A Show Like They Never Seen Before

  Marshall

  How About That Pete Rose?

  You Mark My Words

  Photographic Insert

  Genius

  The Machine

  We Haven’t Won Anything

  The Series

  Sun City

  The Field of Dreams

  Afterword

  Acknowledgments

  A Note on Sources

  Bibliography

  Searchable Terms

  About the Author

  Other Books by Joe Posnanski

  Credits

  Copyright

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