I just couldn't let a "Highlights from the '70s" series go by
without throwing in one of MY all-time highlights: the 1978 Yankees
comeback, and eventual championship.
Check out my 1979 card design celebrating that feat:
Would you believe that I could NOT find a suitable color-version of the moment Bucky hit the home run off Mike Torrez?!
There were a ton of black and white images, but no color, so I
found this great image of Dent as he crossed home plate, being greeted
by Chris Chambliss and Roy White.
Just look at the priceless look on Carlton Fisk's face, as well as Mickey Rivers (hidden behind the "#163" call-out).
Needless to say, for about a year after that Dent homer, every kid in the schoolyard was "Bucky Dent" when up at-bat.
Truly the height of the "Bronx Zoo" days at the Stadium, you had a
Reggie Jackson suspension, the famous Jackson-Billy martin scuffle in
the dugout, Martin resigning in mid-season with Bob Lemon taking over
the helm, the introduction to us NYC kids to
a character named "Goose" which led to one of my favorite quotes of the
era "You went from Cy Young to sayonara" (Google it if you don't
remember) and of course "Louisiana Lightning" Ron Guidry having a season
for the ages, going 25-3 with a 1.74 E.R.A. and
248 strikeouts with nine shutouts, winning the Cy Young Award
unanimously while being ripped-off the M.V.P. (I'm STILL holding on to
that one).