Hard-Luck Harvey Haddix and the Greatest Game Ever Lost

Lew Freedman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

218 Seiten

2009
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-4124-2 (ISBN)

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Southpaw Harvey Haddix had logged an unspectacular career by the time he took the mound on May 26, 1959. Haddix faced the Milwaukee Braves and set down the first 36 batters in a row, or 12 innings' worth - a perfect game three innings longer than the norm. This book intends to recount Haddix's one-of-a-kind performance.

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.

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

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 155i

25. 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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.7.2009
Zusatzinfo	10 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	299 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7864-4124-0 / 0786441240
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-4124-2 / 9780786441242
Zustand	Neuware