It was a chance meeting. Dennis Eckersley was a Boston Red Sox broadcaster. Still is.
Kirk Gibson was a Detroit Tigers broadcaster. Still is.
In a hallway in back of the press box in Detroit’s Comerica Park, they happened upon each other.
So reads the wonderful profile of Eckersley recently published in the Boston Globe. Any baseball fan knows you can’t profile Eckersley without spending a little time on the 3-2 backdoor slider that soared into baseball lore.
Author Chad Finn: “Called by the legendary Vin Scully, it was an instant classic, a Roy Hobbs moment in real life.