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92 ’75—THE RED SOX TEAM THAT SAVED BASEBALL
Luis Tiant was one of the most respected and revered players of his time, with his teammates, opponents, the media, and his fans. His career was one of streaks, but his best streaks—in the pennant races of 1972, 1975, and 1978, and in the 1975 postseason — occurred when his team needed him most. He was believed to be nished in the middle of his career but came back to have most of his best seasons and to become, for a few weeks in 1975, the center of the baseball world.
Notes
1 Roger Angell, “Agincourt and After,” in Five Seasons (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977), 292.
2 Luis Tiant and Joe Fitzgerald, El Tiante — e Luis Tiant Story (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1976), 7.
3 Tiant and Fitzgerald, El Tiante, 67-68.
4 Tiant and Fitzgerald, El Tiante, 68.
5 Tiant and Fitzgerald, El Tiante, 113.
6 Peter Gammons, Beyond the Sixth Game (Boston: Houghton Mi in, 1985), 169.
7 Larry Cla in, “Red Sox Fans Cheer Tiant,” e Sporting News, October 7, 1972.
8 Cla in, “Red Sox Fans Cheer Tiant.”
9 Tiant and Fitzgerald, El Tiante, 99.
10 Gammons, Beyond the Sixth Game, 163.
11 Red Smith, “Hard Life of Charlie Finley,” New York Times, October 5, 1975.
12 Tim Horgan, “El Tiante — Pitcher, Philosopher,” Boston Herald, February 23, 1985.
13 Tiant and Fitzgerald, El Tiante, 180-181. 14 Tiant and Fitzgerald, El Tiante, 185-186. 15 Tiant and Fitzgerald, El Tiante, 196.
16 Tiant and Fitzgerald, El Tiante, 198.
17 Tiant and Fitzgerald, El Tiante, 203.
18 Angell, “Agincourt and After,” 295-296. 19 Gammons, Beyond the Sixth Game, 149. 20 Gammons, Beyond the Sixth Game, 163.