Summer of '68: The Season That Changed Baseball--And America--Forever (41 page)

192
Flood’s play/Northrup’s triple:
“It’s My Fault . . . “
Detroit Free Press
, October 11, 1968; Gibson, 205–207; Feldmann, 357–358; Green, 240–241 ; Cantor, 202–204; McCarver interview; Horton interview; McAuliffe interview.

193
“absolutely agreed”
: “Jim Northrup, hero of 1968 champion Tigers, dies at 71,”
Detroit Free Press
, June 8, 2011.

194
“I remain grateful to Schoendienst”:
Gibson, 206.

195
Tigers champions:
Lolich interview; Horton interview;
Sporting News
, October 26, 1968; “Tigers On Top of World!”
Detroit Free Press
, October 11, 1968; “Lolich Can’t Find Room to Celebrate,”
Detroit Free Press
, October 11, 1968.

197
Motown celebration:
“ . . . When Our Tigers Came Through for Us!”
Detroit Free Press
, October, 11 1968; “Win Puts Detroit in High Gear,”
Newsday
, October 11, 1968; “The Night Detroit Went Wild Over Its World Champs,”
Sporting News
, October 26, 1968; “We Win!,”
Detroit Free Press,
October 11, 1968; Cantor, 205–210; Green, 243–248; Feldmann, 359.

198
Lady at the airport:
Gibson, 207.

PART VII

200
Tiant’s mother visits:
Tiant interview; Tiant, 73–75.

201
“idiotic idea”:
“But Only On Sunday,” Kenny Moore,
Sports Illustrated
, February 26, 1973.

202
Ryun’s race:
Daniels interview; Hoffer, 199–202.

204
Visit to NFL Films Library:
September 18, 2010.

209
Hickok Belt:
Q&A with Scott Pitoniak,
USA Today
, Sports section, January 18, 2011. Scott Pitoniak is the author of
Jewel of the Sports World
.

210
“Things were never the same”:
Gibson, 208–209.

211
Horton lands Gibson’s autograph:
Horton interview.

AFTERMATH

213
ready for long run
: National Baseball Hall of Fame research department.

213
elite status:
Lolich interview; Pattison and Raglin, 83–89.

214
Las Vegas gig:
McLain, 167–208, 261–348; Pattison and Raglin, 109–115; “Denny’s Vegas Debut Called ‘Less Than Smashing,’”
Detroit News
, December 14, 1968; “His Idol is Sinatra,”
Time
, September 13, 1968; “Never Touch a Superstar,”
Look
, March 2, 1970.

216
same batting helmet:
Horton interview; Pattison and Raglin, 67–72.

216
only Fall Classic appearance:
http://www.thebaseballpage.com/players/kalinal01
; Pattison and Raglin, 73–78; Hal Butler,
Al Kaline and the Detroit Tigers,
Henry Regnery, 1973; Seth Swirsky,
Baseball Letters,
Three Rivers Press, 88–89.

217
one of the few:
Brown interview; Pattison and Raglin, 3–8.

217
serious knee injury:
McAuliffe interview; Pattison and Raglin, 101–108.

218
future appears bright:
Warden interview; Pattison and Raglin, 169–172.

219
Roster changes:
Cardinals’ postscript, National Baseball Hall of Fame research department, Bill Francis interview, July 5, 2011.

219
“Trading Cepeda”:
Gibson, 211.

220
critic of lowering the mound:
Gibson, 222–247;
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=Bob_Gibson_1935

220
“Bob’s caliber”:
Aaron interview.

220
“I wish I could have played on the same team with him”:
National Baseball Hall of Fame research department, material gathered for Gibson’s Hall of Fame induction in 1981.

220
“the opportunity”:
Baseball Digest
, March 1972.

220
“plain old guts”:
Ibid.

220
MVP candidate:
Brock interview;
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=Lou_Brock_1939

221
rally his teammates:
Cepeda interview;
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=Orlando_Cepeda_1937

222
“reminds me of Eddie Mathews”:
“Cards’ Shannon Fights Nephritis,” Joe Donnelly,
Newsday
, May 4, 1971; “Sunny Side Up: Mike Shannon Like to Embrace Life Fully,”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
, August 11, 1996; “ Woman, Barber, Goat Have Story with a Familiar Ring–Shannon’s,”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
, June 15, 1995.

223
“born surly”:
“Roger Maris Is Dead at 51,”
New York Times
, December 15, 1985; “Broadcaster friend says Maris would tune in,”
USA Today
, September 1, 1998.

224
better entertainer:
Briles interview;
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=Nellie_Briles_1943

224
signature offering:
Feldmann, 370–371;
www.carlton32.com
;
Tim McCarver with Danny Peary.
Tim McCarver’s Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans
, 51.

226
gains a following:
McCarver interview; Feldmann, 370–371.
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=Tim_McCarver_1941

226
shake up teams:
Feldman, 372–373; Snyder, 1–16; Gibson, 218–221.
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=Curt_Flood_1938

228
princely sum:
“Catfish Hunter Dead, CNN/SI,
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/news/1999/09/09/hunter_obit_ap/index.html

228
league-worst twenty games:
Tiant interview;
http://www.latinosportslegends.com/Tiant_Luis-bio.htm
;
http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=1&bid=645&pid=14207

229
“The Capitol Punisher”:
Howard interview;
http://www.thebaseballpage.com/players/howarfr01

229
reaches the twenty-victoryplateau:
Dierker interview;
http://www.larrydierker.com

229
decides to tough it out:
Ryan interview;
http://mlb.mlb.com/tex/community/executives/ryan.html

230
curious disappearance of his wife:
Pappas, 326–337; “Body Found in Submerged Car Is Identified as Wife of Milt Pappas,”
Los Angeles Times,
August 9, 1987.

231
once again catch fire:
http://www.nba.com/history/players/russell_bio.html

231
third, behind Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan:
http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=arledgeroon

231
good enough to win:
Daniels interview; Hoffer, 200–202;
http://www.distancerunning.com/inductees/2003/ryun.html
;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ8OieCDOk8

231
caps off the 1968 season:
http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.aspx?player_id=161

232
“partly truth and partly fiction, a walking contradiction”:
Hayden interview;
http://tomhayden.com/biography
/

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