The Greatest Comeback Ever: A fan's daily diary of the 1978 New York Yankees championship season

In 1978, a sixteen year old with a passion for the New York Yankees began to write a daily diary which covered all sports, but first and foremost Yankees baseball. Little did the author know of the sensational season that lay ahead for the New York team. Halfway through the season, the Bronx Bombers were buried in fourth place – fourteen games behind the red hot Boston Red Sox. As providence would have it, the author kept writing as the Yankees proceeded to engineer the greatest comeback in Major League Baseball history. The Greatest Comeback Ever has all the elements of a classic: the passion, intensity and humor of a team including Reggie Jackson, Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner; Martin’s mid-season retirement and replacement, manager Bob Lemon; the Yankees four game sweep of the Red Sox in September, immortalized as the “Boston Massacre”, all leading to a remarkable one-game playoff in which the Yankees’ Bucky Dent hit his famous homerun to help win the AL East title. The Yankees then capped a brilliant season by defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series. Enjoyable for both adult and young fans alike, The Greatest Comeback Ever is uniquely written from the heart of a young fan in love with his team as the season actually unfolded. It has a spontaneity and vividness that will draw baseball fans back into the excitement of 1978’s pennant race between the greatest rivalry in baseball history: the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox.