Full Description
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.
Contents
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
