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Table of Contents Acknowledgments v Preface 1 Introduction: Infamy, Image, and Injustice 00 One (c) He Who Hesitates 00 Scapegoat: Johnny Pesky, 1946 Red Sox 00 The Legend: Pesky Hesitates 00 What Really Happened 00 Escaped Goats 00 Dick Bartell: Everybody Was Yelling "Home! Home!" 00 Why Pesky and Not Bartell? 00 Johnny Evers: "Pulled a boner which he usually works on the other fella" 00 What's Remembered and What's Forgotten 00 Two (c) Base Running Gaffes 00 Scapegoat: The Merkle Incident 00 The Dress Rehearsal 00 The Merkle Game 00 The Play-off Game 00 Afterthoughts 00 Escaped Goats 00 Eric Byrnes and Miguel Tejada: Three Stooges Baseball 00 Babe Ruth's "Only Dumb Play" 00 Stand-Up Guys 00 Three (c) Muffed Fly Balls 00 Scapegoat: Fred Snodgrass and the $30,000 Muff 00 Escaped Goats 00 Max Flack: The War-Shortened Season 00 Bob Meusel: The Heroics of Pete Alexander 00 Bobby Tolan: Riverside Stadium's Center-Field Fence 00 Hack Wilson: "The Most Spectacular Rally in the History of Sport" 00 Willie Davis: The Laurel and Hardy School of Outfielding 00 Summing Up 00 Four (c) Dropped Foul Pop-Ups 000 Scapegoat: Hank Gowdy and the $50,000 Muff 000 Escaped Goats 000 The Mathewson-Merkle-Meyers Mix-Up 000 Jack Clark's Royal Screw-up 000 Yogi Berra and the Reynolds' No-hitter 000 Bob Boone and the Rose Rescue 000 Five (c) Botched Grounders 000 Scapegoats 000 Bill Buckner and the Curse of the Bambino 000 Roger Peckinpaugh and the Record 000 Escaped Goats 000 Honus Wagner: The Pre-Peckinpaugh Record 000 Tony Fernandez and the Curse of Rocky Colavito 000 Mike Andrews and Charley O. 000 Leon Durham and the Cub Curse 000 The Role of the Press 000 Six (c) Gopher Balls I 000 Scapegoats 000 Ralph Branca: The Shot Heard Round the World 000 Mitch Williams: The Ditch Mitch Movement 000 Donnie Moore: In Memoriam 000 Seven (c) Gopher Balls II 000 Escaped Goats: Two Pitchers Who Shed Goat Horns 000 Ralph Terry: Redemption 000 Dennis Eckersley and Gimpy Gibby 000 A Few Who Were Never Crowned 000 Bob Lemon and the Long and Short of It 000 The Ordeal of Byung-Hyun Kim 000 Other Walk-off Home Runs 000 Keys to the Goat Pen 000 Eight (c) Errant Throws 000 Scapegoat: Zimmerman and the Chase 000 Escaped Goats 000 Buck Herzog, Art Fletcher, and the Series Error Record 000 Vern Stephens' Brown-out 000 Al Kaline's Near-Perfect Throw 000 Summing Up 000 Nine (c) Weak-Fielding Pitchers 000 The Bungled Bunt Defense 000 Designated Fielders?: Escaped Goats 000 Bullet Joe Bush's "Whimsical Throw" 000 Nelson Potter's Double Dip 000 Calvin Schiraldi: One Throw Away 000 Dave Stewart and the Defunct Dynasty 000 Mariano Rivera: No Relief from the Best Reliever Ever 000 Ten (c) Passed Balls 000 Scapegoat: Mickey Owen, Hugh Casey, and the Dodger Debacle 000 Escaped Goats 000 Boss Schmidt and the Gathering Darkness 000 Jimmie Wilson, the "Almost Goat" 000 Passed Balls from 1903 to the Present 000 Eleven (c) Wild Pitches 000 Scapegoat: Jack Chesbro and His "Revolutionary" Pitch 000 Escaped Goats 000 John Miljus vs. the 1927 Yankees 000 Bob Moose and the Bad Bounce 000 Wild Pitches from 1903 to the Present 000 Twelve (c) Asleep at the Switch Scapegoat: Ernie Lombardi and the Schnozz's Snooze 000 Escaped Goats 000 Jack Lapp and Larry Doyle's Fadeaway Slide 000 Art Wilson and the Greatest Game Ever Pitched 000 Thirteen (c) Misjudgments and Miscommunication Escaped Goats 000 Turkey Mike Donlin: 1908 (the Merkle Game) 000 Christy Mathewson and Cy Seymour: 1908 (the Play-off Game) 000 Art Fletcher: 1912 (the Snodgrass Game) 000 Mark Koenig and Bob Meusel: 1926 (the Meusel Muff) 000 Charlie Dressen and Gil Hodges: 1951 (the Shot Heard Round the World) 000 Willie Davis and Ron Fairly: 1966 (the Davis Drops) 000 Curt Flood: 1968 (Brock's Stand-Up Play) 000 Marty Barrett and Bob Stanley: 1986 (the Buckner Boot) 000 Defensive Misplays 000 Fourteen (c) Managerial Misfires 000 Scapegoat: Grady Little and Pedro Martinez 000 Escaped Goats 000 Personnel Moves That Backfired 000 Defensive Oversights 000 Strategic Second-Guessing 000 Decisions and Outcomes 000 Fifteen (c) Fan Interference 000 Historical Perspective 000 The Primal Urge 000 Scapegoat: Cub Fan Needs Witness Protection Program 000 Escaped Goat: Yankee Fan Lends a Hand 000 Sixteen (c) Blown Calls 000 Scapegoat: Don Denkinger's Death Threats 000 Escaped Goats 000 Doug Eddings and the Not-Yet-Out Call 000 Ken Burkhart's Behind-the-Back Call 000 Bill Stewart and the Timed Pickoff 000 Art Passarella and the Six-Column Photograph 000 Other Calls and Consequences 000 Seventeen (c) Errors, Scapegoats, and Escaped Goats 000 Errors in Season and Series 000 Characteristics of Scapegoats and Escaped Goats 000 Lost Games and/or Lost Championships 000 Superstar Immunity 000 Late-Inning Prerequisite 000 East Coast Press 000 Turning Victory into Defeat 000 Mental Errors 000 Epilogue (c) Injustice, Failure, and Redemption 000 Baseball and Life 000 Failure and Redemption 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
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Baseball -- United States -- History.
Baseball players -- United States -- Case studies.