Discusses the specifics of an inning of the so-called Black Friday Game. This book tells how, the events that unfolded both in the stands and on the field during the afternoon of Friday, October 7, 1977, would forever change how Philadelphians viewed the Phillies.

On October 7, 1977, the Philadelphia Phillies lost a playoff game to the Dodgers, a game that began so hopefully and ended so disastrously that it has become known in Philadelphia simply as ""Black Friday."" As a season of rare hope and unity crashed to a painful end in a ten-minute sequence of bad plays, so too did the city's urban renaissance falter and an old sense of inferiority return. This ambitious examination of the relationship between the team and city delves deep into Philadelphia's social and baseball history to reveal how the disillusionment of Black Friday affected Philadelphia's self image and fans' relationship to the team they both love and love to hate.