The Worst Call Ever!电子书

Cover

Title Page

Epigraph

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Major League Baseball

Don Denkinger’s Show-Me State Shame

Banished to the Bookies

Connie Mack’s Malaise

The Legend of Jeffrey Maier

The Bambino, Bucky, Buckner, and Barnett

Madhouse at Home Plate

Florida’s Blue Plate Special

Pine Tar

Amazin’ Break

Bonehead Burden

The Fenway Phantom Tag

Herbie’s Heft

Turn the Other Cheek

Eddings’s Erring Eyes

Sleight of Hand

NBA and College Basketball

Hue Hollins’s Helping Hand

Four-Point Favoritism

Tinseltown Treachery

Boston Garden Sun Set

The Short Road to Replay

The Wronging of Riles

Jayhawks Savings Time

Time and Time Again

Scoreboard

Vandy’s Vitiated Victory

Traveling the Road to the Final Four

Give Him a T…and CPR

Bad Shave

Hockey

Gifting The Great One

Kerry Fraser Redux

Creased Cup

A Goal From All Angles

The Flyers and Leon Stickle

In-Flamed Canucks

National Football League

The Tuck Rule

Plundering the Pats

The Immaculate Reception

Double-Sided Coin

Footballs Are Brown

Rice Krispied Pack

“The Big Lie”

Wide Right?

Colts’ Counterfeit Comeback

Giant Wildcard Wipeout

Theft at Three Rivers

Pearson’s Push, and the First Hail Mary

Bert and the Bucs Lose by a Nose

Free Jackie Smith

Two-Eyed Monster

No Average Joe

Snowplowed

The Madness of Pete Morelli

Steel City Steal

Whistling While You Work

College Football

Fifth Down

Fifth Down—The Early Years

Catholics vs. Convicts

Buckeye Desert Boon

Military Time

The Rivalry

Seconds to None

The Nick of Time

Count Your Blessings

Foot-Ball

Bayou Boost

Scrubbed Rocket Launch

Thorny Roses

Replay Dismay

The Olympic Games

Britain’s Golden Rule

Cold War Compromised

Jobbed, Pound-for-Pound

Poached Hamm

French-Fried Figure Skating

Pool Payback

Curtains for Quance

Boxing’s Un-Holy Burglary

Olympic Inequality

The Greatest Athlete in the World

The Longest Ski Jump

Decidedly Out of Sync

Touch First, Finish Second

Porpourri

Hand of God (Soccer)

Wembley Goal (Soccer)

Red-Handed Referees (Soccer)

500 Miles, Give or Take (Auto Racing)

Chip Off the Old Rock (Auto Racing)

Ryder in the Storm (Golf)

Amateur Standing (Golf)

Big Easy Lie (Golf)

The Schenectady (Golf)

Tunney’s Long Count (Boxing)

Thunder Meets Lightning (Boxing)

Sprem Donation (Tennis)

Flushing Serena (Tennis)

Tape-Measure Turmoil (Tennis)

French Dopes (Cycling)

Prozac, Eh? (Curling)

About the Authors

Copyright

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