The Fight of Their Lives: How Juan Marichal and John Roseboro

The Fight of Their Lives: How Juan Marichal and John Roseboro Turned Baseball's Ugliest Brawl into a Story of Forgiveness and Redemption

A 2014 CASEY Award finalist for the best baseball book of the year.

â€œFor baseball fans of a certain age, itâ€™s the ugliest thing theyâ€™ve ever seen in a gameâ€¦ Rosengren details not only the fight, but the role of race in 1965 America, how the two eventually made up, became friends and even signed photos of the fight together.â€
â€”New York Post â€œmust-read booksâ€

Now in paperback!

One Sunday afternoon in August 1965, on a day when baseballâ€™s most storied rivals, the Giants and Dodgers, vied for the pennant, the national pastime reflected the tensions in society and nearly sullied two men forever. Juan Marichal, a Dominican anxious about his familyâ€™s safety during the civil war back home, and John Roseboro, a black man living in South Central L.A. shaken by the Watts riots a week earlier, attacked one another in a moment immortalized by an iconic photo: Marichalâ€™s bat poised to strike Roseboroâ€™s head.

The violent momentâ€“uncharacteristic of either manâ€“linked the two forever and haunted both. Much like John Feinsteinâ€™s The Punch, The Fight of Their Lives examines the incident in its context and aftermath, only in this story the two men eventually reconcile and become friends, making theirs an unforgettable tale of forgiveness and redemption.

The book also explores American culture and the racial prejudices against blacks and Latinos both men faced and surmounted. As two of the premiere ballplayers of their generation, they realized they had more to unite them than keep them apart.
Country USA
Brand Lyons Press
Manufacturer Lyons Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780762788477
ReleaseDate 2015-02-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780762788477

Country	USA
Brand	Lyons Press
Manufacturer	Lyons Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780762788477
ReleaseDate	2015-02-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780762788477

The Fight of Their Lives: How Juan Marichal and John Roseboro Turned Baseball's Ugliest Brawl into a Story of Forgiveness and Redemption

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