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Marshall Garvey, author of Interstate ’85: The Royals, the Cardinals, and the Show-Me World Series, joins the show. Enjoy!
Here are some highlights –
3:26-4:39: “The ’85 Series always stuck in my mind in a really weird way just because of all the emphasis on Don Denkinger’s missed call. It just seemed a little jaundiced to me, but it stayed in my head for 20 years, kinda rattling around in there. It got even more layers in my mind when the Royals finally won it again in the mid-2010s. … My buddy Jonathan Daniel, he wrote the book Suds Series…that’s the ’82 World Series. That (book) got me on a train of thought when I was taking a run one day…and it just like blew up in mind, like, ‘Oh, my god, ’85, no one’s really written about this. … I’m gonna write the definitive book about ’85 and find out there was more than The Call,’ and boy, oh boy, did that turn out to be true.”
7:17-8:40: “It meant everything. This World Series was just, and still is over 40 years later, an epochal moment in Missouri’s entire history, and Missouri has a really rich history, with lots of innovation, lots of crucial events both for the country and even the world at large. … It was especially a point of pride ‘cuz it was a defiance of bicoastal expectations – a lot of people wanted a Mets-Yankees World Series that year, a Subway Series – and instead it forced all eyes on Missouri. … It was a transcendent moment for the just over 5 million people living in Missouri at that time. I thought that was really beautiful.”
30:03-31:10: “It was obviously a very tough thing. It was tough to miss a big call like that and all the hate mail and threats he received, but what I emphasize is that Denkinger learned to live with it, and he learned to live with it pretty fast. Continue reading
