![]() POSNANSKI: So you're talking about Tris Speaker who - yes, to this day, many consider him the greatest defensive center fielder. And he was mentored, if you please, by a coach in center field who was considered the greatest center fielder of all time but had some drawbacks as a mentor, wasn't he? Little less than three months later, Larry Doby, Black player, joined the Cleveland Indians. Jackie Robinson - his integration of Major League Baseball - one of the few examples where I think baseball history is American history. Let me ask you about what I'll call a prolonged and largely unheralded moment. And it was captured all because of a rat at Fenway Park. And it's probably the most iconic shot in the history of baseball on television. So what we see is Carlton Fisk dancing up the line, waving, waving, trying to move the ball fair. ![]() Very close to the camera during the at-bat, and he ended up sort of panicking a little bit and training his camera on Carlton Fisk instead of following the ball. But as the story goes, the cameraman actually saw a rat. POSNANSKI: Yeah, I love the story so much 'cause the camera guy in left field was supposed to follow the ball. And the picture of Carlton Fisk dancing on his toes - tell us the story of how we came to see that picture. SIMON: But, of course, they didn't win the World Series. Carlton Fisk becomes the first player in this series to hit one over the wall into the net. UNIDENTIFIED ANNOUNCER #1: We will have a seventh game in this 1975 World Series. SIMON: Let's not delay - Carlton Fisk's home run for the Boston Red Sox to win the sixth game of the 1975 World Series, sometimes called the best single game ever played. Of course, the announcer's call was so great, and I will never forget it. I think of baseball moments - some that are in this book - that I was in my car listening on the radio, and the moment was so overwhelming. POSNANSKI: I would say you define a baseball moment by something that you see that you take home with you - something that you think about either days later, weeks later, months later, years later. JOE POSNANSKI: I'm so happy to be with you, Scott. Joe Posnanski's new book reminds us that those of us who love baseball often speak of its magic moments - not winning the World Series and home run records so much as, did you see that throw from right? Can you believe that play? Do you remember that night? His new book - "Why We Love Baseball: A History In 50 Moments." And Joe Posnanski, a former Sports Illustrated columnist who has been named national sportswriter of the year by five different organizations, joins us from St.
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