The Greatest Summer in Baseball History: Author Reading and Discussion

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11 May, 2023

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1973 was a watershed year. An oil embargo made gasoline scarce. Watergate undercut Nixon. Marlon Brando refused his Oscar in solidarity with the AIM takeover of Wounded Knee. And the national pastime was in crisis. That summer, five men -- Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, George Steinbrenner, Orlando Cepeda, and Reggie Jackson -- rescued baseball. John Rosengren is a SABR member with an MFA. A Pulitzer nominee for his journalism, Rosengren has written for The Atavist, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, and the Washington Post Magazine, among other publications. He lives in Linden Hills.