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Lot # 1073: October 2, 1978 Bucky Dent's Iconic Home Run Program Signed and Inscribed by Dent & Torrez (PSA)

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Item was in Auction "2024 Summer Classic",
which ran from 6/9/2024 12:00 PM to
6/29/2024 10:00 PM



Displayed is a Boston Red Sox Official Scorebook Magazine (Third Edition) that has a signed cover featuring the signatures and inscriptions of Bucky Dent and Mike Torrez. Oct. 2, 1978, was the American League East tiebreaker game at Fenway Park between the Boston Red Sox and the visiting New York Yankees. The two teams had finished the regular season deadlocked for the AL East Crown, with each having 99-63 records. Ron Guidry started for the Yankees, and Mike Torrez opened on the mound for the Red Sox. Boston took a 2-0 lead on a homer by Carl Yastrzemski, and an RBI by Jim Rice. Dent was a light-hitting shortstop, batting ninth that day, who only had 40 home runs in his entire Major League career. With two men on base in the top of the 7th inning, Dent hit a pitch from Torrez over the Green Monster in left field to give the Yankees a 3-2 lead, and New York hung on to win the game at 5-4, with Yankee Hall of Fame reliever Goose Gossage getting the save by inducing Hall of Famer Yastrzemski to pop out with two out in the home 9th. The Red Sox season was over., and the Yankees went on to win the World Series. The offered program scorebook measures 8.5x11", and it has 58 pages, including an unused scorecard. Both Dent and Torrez have signed and inscribed the program scorebook in blue marker. Torrez also inscribed, Oct. 2nd 1978. Dent added an inscription reading, "Curse of the Bambino Yankees 5 - Sox 4". The program has a cover photo of the Boston Red Sox manager at the time, Don Zimmer. There is some minor paper loss on the top left of the cover, but overall, the program is in excellent condition. Even more than four decades after Dent's memorable blast, some embittered Red Sox fans refer to the former Yankees shortstop as "Bucky (expletive deleted) Dent!" The program scorebook and the signed inscriptions make this offering a real find.

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