or 1972 there you go again. 1972 if nixon wins 49 states, chances are good he s either losing wisconsin or maryland. he said it with such self-assurance. forget it that a bakers dozen have won since then. the most colorful republican, beats out lincoln, who suspended habeas corpus, virtually a dictator in war-time. then you re teddy roosevelt. he just brushes aside teddy roosevelt. there you go, very impressive. chief national correspondent for the new york times magazine mark leibovich is here. you know what he was known as in college? mark the bird leibovich. i was up late last night. it was 1976 that mark the bird fidrych exploded onto the scene.
it was an iconic sports illustrated cover. i listened, i was thinking about mark the bird fidrych as i drifted to sleep last night because i was reading twitter and there was joe s tweet. that is creepy, but randy jones it is very rare that a sports figure so fully capture as moment in time as that, mark the bird fidrych did during a little sliver of the late 70s and sort of faded away, had a lot of arm troubles after that. it was just a moment in time. 18 million people summer of 76. summer of 76, right before the bicentennial. a week before the bicentennial, 18 million americans stopped on a monday night, to watch mark the bird fidrych pitch against the new york yankees. howard cosell talking about monday night baseball and talking about mark the fire