{"id":1763,"date":"2014-03-09T12:55:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T16:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2014-03-09T12:56:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T16:56:31","slug":"the-fight-of-their-lives-how-juan-marichal-and-john-roseboro-turned-baseballs-ugliest-brawl-into-a-story-of-forgiveness-and-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=1763","title":{"rendered":"THE FIGHT OF THEIR LIVES: HOW JUAN MARICHAL AND JOHN ROSEBORO TURNED BASEBALL&#8217;S UGLIEST BRAWL INTO A STORY OF FORGIVENESS AND REDEMPTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/JM2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/JM2.jpg\" alt=\"JM2\" width=\"185\" height=\"273\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1765\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGreat new book by John Rosengren on the famous baseball brawl involving Hall of Fame Juan Marichal drafted by the NY Giants.<\/p>\n<p>One Sunday afternoon in August 1965, on a day when baseball\u2019s 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 family\u2019s 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: Marichal\u2019s bat poised to strike Roseboro\u2019s head.<br \/>\nThe violent moment\u2013uncharacteristic of either man\u2013linked the two forever and haunted both. Much like John Feinstein\u2019s 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.<br \/>\nThe 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great new book by John Rosengren on the famous baseball brawl involving Hall of Fame Juan Marichal drafted by the NY Giants. One Sunday afternoon in August 1965, on a day when baseball\u2019s most storied rivals, the Giants and Dodgers, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=1763\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}