The most memorable game in the history of baseball was played between the Red Sox and the Cincinnati Reds 34 years ago – Oct. 21, 1975. And it was played, of course, at Fenway Park.

The greatest game of the greatest series.

There is no disputing the significance of Games 4 and 5 of the 2004 American League Championship series to Red Sox fans everywhere. Winning those two games against the Yankees provided the momentum for the greatest comeback in modern sports history.

And every Red Sox fan has Oct. 27, 2004 committed to their memory for their rest of their lives as Game 4 completed a World Series sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals, ending 86 years of heartbreak.

But when it comes to epic moments on the greatest stage baseball has to offer there is still one game – one night – that will live on in the hearts of baseball fans everywhere.

It was 34 years ago that Game 6 of the 1975 World Series was played between the favored Big Red Machine and the underdog Red Sox. With the Reds heading back to Boston up, 3 games-to-2, they needed just one win to end a half-decade of near-misses.

The weather would provide a dramatic and appropriate metaphor. Three days of rain delayed the contest, which began on a crisp New England autumn night and ended in the early morning hours of Oct. 22.

But it was not only how it ended on Carlton Fisk’s tantalizingly dramatic home run off the left field pole that made this game a classic. It was everything that led up to that moment at 12:34 a.m. that made Game Six the greatest game ever played in the eyes of baseball fans around the globe.

Now, there’s a book out that details that night. “Game Six-Cincinnati, Boston and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America’s Pastime” by Mark Frost not only addresses the game but the personalities in and around the game.

“This was epic drama on a stage I’d never witnessed before,” Frost said. “That feeling stayed with me all these years. It’s an attempt to bring back to life that entire evening, one of the greatest stories in American sports.”

The book starts off describing the background of Reds skipper George ‘Sparky’ Anderson, who the author believes was actually the key difference in the series.

“I think Sparky was probably the difference in the series,” Frost said of Anderson, who was matched up against Red Sox skipper Darrell Johnson. “Those two teams were so evenly matched and played each other to a dead standstill after six games. By consensus, I think many people believe it was the greatest series ever. I think the edge that may have won that series for Cincinnati was their manager. I think he was a clear, strategic thinker who was probably a better fit for that team than any manager before or since.”

To Frost, it was the personalities on both teams and in the press box that made writing this story so fascinating. It was a game and a series that changed the way the game was covered by the media, watched by the fans and played by its stars.

“I didn’t think that anybody had really done the story of who all these people were,” Frost said. “Sure, we’d heard about the game before. I never read a book that got deeply inside all those players. What was going on between them and their manager, what going on in the broadcast booth, what was going on in the country at that time.”

And what was happening at that time in America was a serious recession, national malaise following Watergate and the end of the Vietnam War.

This game, along with the Miracle on Ice at the 1980 Winter Olympics, went farther than anything to give Americans hope in their sporting culture.

“It was a very important moment in the history of baseball,” Frost said. “This was the last series played before the start of free agency. A lot of changes were in the wind. I just felt by telling the story of this one game you could almost tell the story of baseball in this country. That was an interesting challenge to take on.”

Frost said that interviewing stars like Carlton Fisk, Pete Rose and Johnny Bench made it a labor of love.

“All these guys are at a age where, in their late 50s, mid 60s, they’re interested in seeing where their careers fit in the history of the game,” Frost said. “They’re interested in looking back and seeing what that game, the series meant to them.”

Frost’s book is available through Hyperion Books.