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Russell Earl "Bucky" Dent (né O'Dey; born November 25, 1951) is an American former professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox , New York Yankees , Texas Rangers , and Kansas City Royals from 1973 to 1984.
The 1978 American League East tie-breaker game was a one-game extension to Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1978 regular season.The game was played at Fenway Park in Boston on the afternoon of Monday, October 2 between the rival New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox to determine the winner of the American League's (AL) East Division.
Bucky F*cking Dent is a 2016 novel by actor David Duchovny which focuses on a father-son relationship and baseball. [1] [2] Plot. A Yankee Stadium peanut vendor moves ...
June 6, 1990: Yankees manager Bucky Dent was fired before a game against the Red Sox at Fenway Park. [11] George Steinbrenner was severely criticized for firing Dent, his 18th managerial change in 18 years, because he did it in Boston, where Dent had his greatest moment as a player. [12] However, Bill Pennington called the firing of Dent ...
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Nicknamed "Chicken", [1] Stanley was a key backup to Bucky Dent of the Yankees teams in the late 1970s and was a part of the Yankees championship teams in both 1977 and 1978. Stanley was a favorite player of Phil Rizzuto , who did the color analysis for the Yankees during this timeframe.
The game is best known for Bucky Dent's seventh-inning, three-run home run that gave the Yankees a 3–2 lead. [19] Later that month, the Yankees again won the World Series over the Los Angeles Dodgers. [16] Guidry won the 1978 American League Cy Young Award unanimously. [15]
Besides Mickey Mantle Day, Messer's great Yankee moments included his 1978 call of Bucky Dent's dramatic three-run homer in the American League East Championship Game against the host Boston Red Sox; and his 1980 call of Reggie Jackson's 400th home run ("There she goes! Might be upper deck!"), both on WINS radio. WPIX and its usual Rizzuto ...