Sometimes the rewards from writing a soccer book only come years after it’s been published. I don’t mean in the form of belated royalty checks (though they would be nice), but in the emails out of the blue that express a thank you or an appreciation. One such message reached me a few weeks ago, relating to a particular game recounted in Rock ‘n’ Roll Soccer, my history-cum-analysis of the North American Soccer League. The chapter in question, ‘Hot Property Getting Mobbed,’ pinpoints an annulled NASL regular-season game between the Boston Minutemen and the New York Cosmos at Nickerson Field in 1975 as the night when U.S. soccer came of age. In short, it was Pelé vs. Eusebio.
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