“The star of Down to the Last Pitch is Tim Wendel, one of our game’s must-read writers.”
-John Thorn, official historian of Major League Baseball
Never before in baseball history had a team finished last and rallied to take the pennant the following season. Yet in 1991, lightning struck twice as the Minnesota Twins and the Atlanta Braves both reached the World Series. Four of the games between the Twins and Braves were settled by “walk-off” runs. Three of them, including the climactic Game Seven, went into extra innings. And all seven games had memorable moments.
In Down to the Last Pitch, award-winning writer Tim Wendel brings to life these seven memorable games, weaving contemporary interviews with discussions decades later about this classic World Series, and teasing out fact from legend.
Tim Wendel was a founding editor of USA Today's Baseball Weekly, which was in its inaugural season when the 1991 Twins-Braves Series played out. The highly acclaimed author of 11 books is currently writer-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University.
The first three-time author in the Clubhouse, Tim was previously here with High Heat and Summer of '68. Listen in to this discussion of Down to the Last Pitch with one of the game's must-read writers...
NY Giants Preservation Society special guest: Ed Lucas
A special evening in the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse with Nicholas Dawidoff
"No No: A Dockumentary" - special panel discussion with director Jeffrey Radice and sports agent Tom Reich
"Big Red" with Ken Griffey
"Stars and Strikes" with author Dan Epstein
NY Giants Preservation Society Presents: "1954" with Bill Madden
"Wrigley Field" with Pulitzer Prize-winner Ira Berkow
"The Fight Of Their Lives" with John Rosengren
"Babe Ruth's Called Shot" with Ed Sherman
"NY Giants Preservation Society event with the children of Dusty Rhodes"
"The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams" with Ben Bradlee Jr.
"The Sabermetric Revolution" with Andrew Zimbalist
New York Giants Preservation Society - Winter 2014 meeting with special guest Ken Davidoff
"The Groundbreaking History of WFAN" with author Tim Sullivan and special guest Rich Ackerman
"Inside the Clubhouse Look at Baseball Scouting"
"Willard Mullin's Golden Age of Baseball" with Hal Bock
"Smoky Joe Wood" with Gerald Wood
"Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life After Baseball" with Michael G. Long
Peter Magowan & the NY Giants Preservation Society
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