............ and prayers for Bararo's health.
Nicknamed "the Kitten" at St. Louis for his resemblance to Harry "the Cat" Brecheen...
Ping
ahhh... you have to love the days when starting pitchers kept pitching regardless of the pitch count...
I remember back in the 70's... Nolan Ryan would throw 200+ pitches in a game. Nowadays, the starters get yanked after 100 pitches or so.
;-)
BTW. It was the same radio I would use the next year to listen to the World Series during class -- I shudder to think what those nuns would have done to me if they knew I had that radio hidden under my shirt with the wire going up my sleeve and the earphone hidden in my hand.
I remember walking home from the ball fields and I heard the start of the game from someone's radio playing KDKA on their porch and so i hurried home to tune in.
I remember being in bed and calling downstairs to my dad that Haddix had a no-hitter after 4 or 5 innings. He said something like, "that's nice" and continued watching his TV program.
I called down a few innings later, and he switched over to listen to the game on his transistor radio .
Great memory. Thanks BTS.
Somebody pitched 9 no-hit innings a few years back and had the game go into extra innings.
They wouldn't, though, if there were not so many other games which go so very much differently! This way we can appreciate them!I remember hearing about and reading about the Haddix non-nohitter; how can you pitch that well and lose! But being a Phillies fan living near Philadelphia at the time, I didn't hear the play-by-play. My real introduction to MLB fandom was in 1950 when I was 11 and the Phillies won the pennant.
Dad loved to pitch softball and he taught me windmill pitching; at a time when I was pitching in a league my former schoolmates got a pickup game with other college-age guys from nearby, and they recruited me. My big chance for a no-hitter; nobody got a ball out of the infield all game.
Dad caught the game for several innings, and had to leave; when he left they replaced him with someone who couldn't handle it and he allowed a base runner on a third strike. Who advanced to third on passed balls, and kept me from throwing out the next batter when I fielded his grounder.
There's just so much difference between the various levels of play; I never came particularly close to a no-hitter against an organized team. To think of pitching a perfect game into extra innings against the Braves and Henry Aaron!!