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To: nickcarraway

What Doc himself said about that game:

“I can only remember bits and pieces of the game. I was zeroed in on the glove . . . I remember hitting a couple of batters, and the bases were loaded two or three times. The ball was small sometimes, the ball was large sometimes, sometimes I saw the catcher, sometimes I didn’t. Sometimes, I tried to stare the hitter down and throw while I was looking at him. I chewed my gum until it turned to powder. I started having a crazy idea in the fourth inning that Richard Nixon was the home plate umpire, and once I thought I was pitching a baseball to Jimi Hendrix, who to me was holding a guitar and swinging it over the plate. They say I had about three to four fielding chances. I remember diving out of the way of a ball I thought was a line drive. I jumped, but the ball wasn’t hit hard and never reached me.”


12 posted on 09/01/2014 5:15:39 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: equaviator

Sounds like Doc tripped many times during his career. LOL


13 posted on 09/01/2014 5:35:26 AM PDT by angcat
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