[ICAB9USA]

(That night) I could have put a cup on either corner of the plate and hit it. – Harvey Haddix

[ICAB9USA]

Making this great game even more remarkable:

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"Haddix's dominance becomes more remarkable when you realize that many of the Braves' hitters knew what pitches were coming. In 1989, when a number of players from both teams were present at a banquet in Pittsburgh commemorating the game's 30th anniversary, former Milwaukee pitcher Bob Buhl pulled Haddix aside. "You know we were stealing signs during the game?" he asked."

"Buhl told him that pitchers in the Braves' bullpen peered through binoculars to pick up the signs Burgess flashed to Haddix. One reliever then signaled the batter: towel on the shoulder meant fastball, no towel meant breaking ball. All but one Milwaukee hitter, Aaron, took the signals. "There were rumors that they might be stealing signs that series," says Smith, "but none of us knew they were doing it that night.""

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[ICAB9USA]

"Not once did Haddix shake off his catcher; Burgess made just three visits to the mound. In fact Haddix barely uttered a word to anyone. There weren't even words exchanged between Haddix, a three-pack-a-day smoker, and Groat, who lit a cigarette for the pitcher in the dugout between every inning, a ritual that began after the second. "It got to the point where he'd just sit there with [a cigarette in his mouth] and wouldn't move until I came over and lit it," says Groat. "Then I'd just run away."" -------

LOL

[ICAB9USA]

Is there a baseball **ping list** here at FR?

[ICAB9USA]

On baseball ....

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"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

"The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today ..... a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped and summer was gone.""

[valkyry1]

//(That night) I could have put a cup on either corner of the plate and hit it. – Harvey Haddix //

Talent aside, When you are on you are on.. I guess no other answer!!

[Old Teufel Hunden]

The Kitten was a great pitcher. People look at the 1960 world series and think that the Pirates were so overmatched by the Yankees. However, the Pirates had a really good pitching staff with the likes of Haddix, Vernon Law, Bob Friend and Elroy Face. And they had one of the great defensive infields with Mazeroski and Dick Groat. Groat was also an all American basketball player at Duke. He still announces Pittsburgh Panthers basketball games with Bill Hillgrove on the radio.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Bookmark for later.

[ml/nj]

By now radio stations across the country, as far west as Los Angeles, as far east as North Carolina, had picked up the broadcast of KDKA in Pittsburgh.

I listened on WWVA which came in very well after sundown on Long Island. Les Keiter must have been doing one of his Giant recreation broadcasts, because I seen to remember that he gave updates on the Haddix game. Otherwise I would have had no reason to tune into WWVA that night. (I mostly only listened when the Giants were plying the Pirates.)

ML/NJ

[Hoodat]

The greatest game ever pitched was on June 12, 1970

when Pittsburg Pirate pitcher Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter while
tripping on acid. To me, it is the greatest sports feat of all time.