Josh, no offense, but I don’t think this card depicts game 6 of the world series. It’s a day game (and game 6 was played at night). In fact, I don’t think the Yanks played a single HOME day game in the 1977 world series, and while I cannot be 100% certain, I don’t think those are Dodgers in the dugout.

I think the moment may have actually been captured by THIS CARD —> http://tinyurl.com/6qkuwr

Of course, even the card I’m citing may not have actually been from the series. I do kind of like the fact that Martin is watching Reggie though, don’t you? What was Billy thinking?

I think part of the magic of Reggie was that you didn’t see him every day-you mostly read about him. If he wasn’t torturing the Red Sox in person, you scanned the box score, looking for that KC or Cal line- “Jackson 4 2 3 5″, as they win again, sweeping another series and lengthening their lead over us.

If you saw him every day on SC, the swinging strikeouts would have been more obvious.

Anyway it was always the World Series for Reggie.

THAT AND IT LOOKS LIKE REGGIE IS WATCHING A FOUL BALL, OR TRYING TO SQUEEZE A “REGGIE BAR” BACK IN BETWEEN PITCHES… ONE OR THE OTHER…

Then again, the moment captured by this card is probably a spring training game or something. There’s sunshine. Game 6 of the World Series was, of course, a night game.

One in particular caught my interest, and I’d like to respectfully offer a dissenting view:

“SportsCenter had been around then, Reggie’s greatness would be on radio waves continuously leaving Earth and reaching every corner of the galaxy.”

I think that the current media landscape might make a guy like Reggie more widely known, but I think it would make him smaller. It’s impossible to be a legend anymore. Back then, he and other sports heros (Ali and especially ABA Dr. J come to mind) entered people’s minds in a way much more similar to the hero-making magic of folklore, and because they entered people’s minds that way, aided by each person’s imagination, they stayed there and grew rather than (as with sports star names in today’s noisy world) diminished and disappeared.

Of course, Reggie was a little smaller than full-blown immortality in those days if you lived outside the reach of the Eastern media monolith. If SportsCenter had been around then, Reggie’s greatness would be on radio waves continuously leaving Earth and reaching every corner of the galaxy. In one of those alternate universes, Reggie would BE James T Kirk. Wrap your head around that.

The other reason Reggie seemed a little smaller than full-blown immortality was THE BRONX ZOO. If Scotty or Bones had written a tell-all, highlighting the time Kirk lost a battle of wits to Mr Kyle in the transporter room (or whoever plays Mickey Rivers in that alternate universe), James T might seem more like a man and less like a legend, too. We will never know.