Hard-Luck Harvey Haddix and the Greatest Game Ever Lost - Lew Freedman

Hard-Luck Harvey Haddix and the Greatest Game Ever Lost

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
218 Seiten
2009
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-4124-2 (ISBN)
22,40 inkl. MwSt
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
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