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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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 218 ● ISBN 9780786454198 ● Publisher McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers ● Published 2009 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5671840 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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