In Tampa, a 1978 Moment
In Tampa, Times
sportswriter Jack Curry joined Bucky Dent and Mike Torrez, who were eating dinner together.
Dent and Torrez, you'll remember, are inextricably linked; it was Torrez who gave up Dent's three-run homer in the famous 1978 playoff which is partly the subject of my book, "The Greatest Game."
I wondered to myself what it must be like to be Torrez, sitting two seats away from the player who popped a three-run homer off him in 1978 to vault the Yankees past the Red Sox in the dramatic playoff game....
The Greatest Game tries to answer that question...