Hard-Luck Harvey Haddix and the Greatest Game Ever Lost

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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He pitched a baseball game that was more than perfect, and yet he lost. Southpaw Harvey Haddix had logged a solid but unspectacular career by the time he took the mound on May 26, 1959. Facing the Milwaukee Braves, he set down the first 36 batters in a row, or 12 innings' worth--a perfect game three innings longer than the norm. But his Pittsburgh Pirates couldn't score, either, and Haddix lost in the 13th inning on a controversial play. This book recounts Haddix's one-of-a-kind performance and describes the official decisions that changed the historical record.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-07-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt:299 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:218
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9780786441242

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Lew Freedman is a long-time, prize-winning journalist for such newspapers as the Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, Anchorage Daily News and Wyoming’s Cody Enterprise. Specializing in sports and the outdoors, he has written more than 100 books. He lives in Columbus, Indiana.

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“If you want an illumination of one baseball’s most magical games, Freedman serves up a winner in detailing the ‘greatest game ever lost.’”—Baseball Happenings.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. All Pitchers Should Be So Sick 2. Bad Baseball 3. First Inning 4. Harvey 5. Second Inning 6. The Worthy Opposition 7. Third Inning 8. Pittsburgh 9. Fourth Inning 10. Branch Rickey 11. Fifth Inning 12. A Prince of a Guy 13. Sixth Inning 14. Speaking Spanish 15. Seventh Inning 16. The Boss 17. Eighth Inning 18. Ninth Inning 19. Tenth Inning 20. Eleventh Inning 21. Twelfth Inning 22. Thirteenth Inning 23. Aftermath 24. The 1959 Season 155i25. The Year All Pittsburgh Went Crazy 26. Waxing Eloquent Over Haddix 27. Life After Imperfection 28. Upon Further Review Box Score: Milwaukee 1, Pittsburgh 0 Chapter Notes Bibliography Index