Madden: 40 years ago, my career took an improbable turn leading to an impossible home run

I don’t remember what my final story read like, other than I’m pretty sure I had all the elements of the game in it and Milton bought me dinner in New York when we got home. The story appeared in hundreds of papers around the country, mostly without a byline, just not in New York. Such was the price paid working for a wire service, where you toiled in virtual anonymity. A few months after the ’78 World Series (and the newspaper strike which Lemon credited as the biggest factor in the Yankees’ great comeback), I joined the Daily News and became the Yankee beat man, forming lasting friendships with most of the players on that 1978 team over the years. Dent, Piniella, Guidry, Gossage, Chambliss, Spencer, Randolph, White…they were all genuinely good guys and fun to cover. And I will never forget the night years later I was having a drink with Dent in a bar in Manhattan when some guy, half inebriated, came up to us and blustered: “Ahhh Bucky Dent…how many f-ing home runs did you hit in the big leagues?”

Bill Madden

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