Summer of '68: the Season That Changed Baseball--And America--Forever

Authors: Tim Wendel

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“Sports Illustrated, February 23, 1970.57 orange hair: Cantor, 17.57 contacts, Hammond organ, bowling: “Never Touch a Superstar,” Bill Freehan with Steve Gelman and Dick Shaap, Sports Illustrated, March 2, 1970; McLain, 83, 105.58 “Me? Revel in the media”: McLain, 168.58 cortisone shots: Mead interview; McLain, 127.59 McLain’s background: McLain, 13–21; Pattison and Raglin, 109–110.59 Tom McLain’s death: “He’d done a lot for baseball, and he’ ll be the first to let you know it,” Chicago Tribune,... David Condon, October 27, 1968.60 “clobbered pretty good”: Lolich interview.61 Return to Portland: Lolich interview; “Lolich Tops Premier Win,” (Portland) Oregonian, May 31, 1962.62 Gerry Staley’s instruction: Lolich interview.62 Riding motorcycles: Lolich interview; “Mickey Lolich: Out From Behind McLain’s Shadow,” Super Sports, March 1969.62 “Denny McLain was Denny McLain”: McAuliffe interview.63 “Nobody cared”: The Wild Ride to Super Bowl I, NFL Films, directors Ray Didinger, Jeff Hillegass, 2004.63 Super Bowl name: www.superbowl.com.64 No footage exists: Patrick Pano, NFL Films, author interview, January 11, 2006.64 “hooked on football”: Hugh Hefner, author interview, January 14, 2006.64 “too predictable to be memorable”: Michael MacCambridge, author interview, January 15, 2006.64 “bigger, grander”: MacCambridge interview.65 Tigers in camp: Warden interview.67 “a graduate course in capturing the magic”: Gillette and Enders, 133.68 Detroit under curfew: Warden interview.68 Riots in Detroit: http://www.67riots.rutgers.edu/d_index.htm; Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage, 245; Kurlansky, 8.68 Detroit riots: Horton interview.69 philosophy of coaching: Russell, 100.70 “If we can rebound”: Roland Lazenby, Jerry West: The Life and Legend of a Basketball Icon, 262.70 “Track is really psychic”: Sports Illustrated, December 23, 1968.71 “a fantastic athlete”MoreLess Read More Read Less