* - The game was a series finale between the Dodgers and the Giants; the two teams were going hammer and tong for the National League pennant as it was.
* - The first two games of the set featured a few brushbacks on the part of both sides' pitchers.
* - Marichal, perhaps thinking to send the Dodgers a message in his own right, pushed both Maury Wills and Ron Fairly of the Dodgers off the plate with very tight inside pitching early on.
* - Koufax---who usually didn't believe in intimidation by anything other than sheer pitching domination---actually answered in kind by a) brushing back Willie Mays; and, b) brushing Marichal himself back when Marichal batted during the fateful at-bat.
* - Roseboro took it on himself to decide that Koufax hadn't sent Marichal a message sufficient enough. He let a Koufax pitch sail through his hands and behind the plate, enabling him to retrieve the ball and send the message himself. Read very carefully (I know of whence I speak: I've seen a film of that game, including the entire Marichal at-bat): John Roseboro's return throw to Sandy Koufax nearly took Juan Marichal's head off . . . and Marichal himself was still facing the mound and the field in the box when Roseboro made the throw; Marichal never saw the ball coming at him, and only saw it zip right past the side of his head.
* - Marichal---by all accounts a fun-loving, even-tempered man (he was renowned for such practical jokes as loading perfume bottles with stink bombs, if he caught one in a teammate's locker, say as a gift intended for said teammate's wife, or girl friend; his wife once said he never woke up in a foul mood in the morning)---would have to have been superhuman to have kept his temper after nearly being knocked unconscious by a hard throw past his head from behind. He turned around and screamed at Roseboro, basically, "Why did you do that?!? Why did you do that?!?"
* - Read this very carefully, too: John Roseboro had pulled his heavy catcher's mask off and still had it in his hand as he advanced toward Marichal. Roseboro also had some martial arts knowledge, and most players around the National League probably knew it. He was not an unarmed man advancing on the man whose head he'd just come thatclose to taking off with a return throw delivered way more forcefully than any catcher would throw back to his pitcher.
* - Nobody, not even Juan Marichal himself, would excuse what happened next, but Marichal most likely poleaxed Roseboro out of self-defence. A man advancing on another man wielding a very heavy catcher's mask cocked as if ready to use it as a weapon, and with some martial arts knowledge to boot, is not a defenceless man.
* - Everything else you heard or read of the brawl was true: both dugouts and bullpens emptying, Sandy Koufax charging toward the plate to try to get the bat out of Marichal's hands, another Giant (it turned out to be infielder Tito Fuentes, who said later he was trying to break up the brawl) waved a bat at the melee, Willie Mays plowing through the mob to get Roseboro out of the pileup and toward medical attention, Koufax shaken up enough by the incident to lose his mound composure (and surrender a three-run bomb to Mays shortly after order of a sort was restored and the game continued), Marichal suspended two weeks and fined $10,000 for the incident, the Dodgers protesting that Marichal hadn't been punished enough.
* - As things turned out, Marichal and the Giants had gotten punished plenty over the incident: Marichal, their best pitcher, missed two starts during his suspension. The Dodgers won the pennant by two games over the Giants, Sandy Koufax himself pitching what proved the pennant clincer on two days' rest.
I loved the "Weepy Cheeseball Organ Music" and the segment about Don'T! LOL
You're getting VERY good.
How long "Duz" it take you to write the script? It's so involved!