The game was a freak due to bad play and Wrigley winds. It had no impact on the season and no historic moments, apart from the score. The Cubs hold the all-time record for coming back from the largest deficit to tie a game and then lose it.

But the book was weird. The opening and closing chapters were random, choppy, and pointless. We learned a lot about Bob Boone's family, Donnie Moore's domestic abuse and suicide, Pete Rose's gambling, and Dave Kingman's cruelty to a woman reporter. But none of that had anything to do with the game the book was suppose to be about.

BTW, I remember the game. I was in my final semester at Moody. I turned on the radio after lunch and before class and heard the Phillies score 8 in the first. I caught up with the game somewhere and found out the Cubs had made a game of it. I went back to my room at break and saw the Cubs were down by 12. Then, after work, I turned it on and saw the Cubs had tied it. I went upstairs to the lounge in time to see Schmidt's home run and the end of the game.