Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America's Pastime »

Mark Frost is the author of numerous acclaimed and bestselling books, including The Match and The Greatest Game Ever Played, and the novels The Second Objective and The List of Seven. He lives in Los Angeles and upstate New York.

The crowd rose to its feet.

Carlton Fisk didn't run. He turned sideways and took three abbreviated hops down the first base line, wildly waving his arms at the ball like a kid in a Little League game, urging, willing, begging it to stay fair. Pete Rose turned and sprinted down the left field line, following the flight of the ball toward the pole, willing it to turn foul, and never saw Fisk's dance toward first. Tony Kubek stepped forward right into the Reds dugout, alongside Sparky and everyone else In the club, all of them craning their necks forward to keep the ball in sight.

Thirty-five thousand people locked in a suspended passage of time—less than four seconds by the clock . . .

The New York Times - Harvey Araton

Mark Frost's Game Six, the gripping story of the penultimate game of the 1975 World Series, does nothing to dispel the existential wonderfulness of Red Sox Nation, in addition to paying deserved homage to the winner of that Series, Cincinnati's Big Red Machine…no matter how historic the innings or how earnest the reporting, basing nearly an entire book on one game demands a deft storyteller's touch, the ability to capture individuals and explore issues while not straying too far from the field. Frost achieves this stylistically and…convincingly. For the sake of the baseball purist, he never cheats on the strategizing during Game 6 or the dramatic moments for which it is best remembered