Hard-Luck Harvey Haddix and the Greatest Game Ever Lost

by Freedman, Lew

• ISBN13: 9780786441242
• ISBN10: 0786441240
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-01
• Publisher: McFarland Publishing

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Lew Freedman is a Chicago-based sportswriter who has worked on the staffs of the Chicago Tribune, Anchorage Daily News, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. The winner of more than 250 journalism awards, he is the author of 35 books.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
All Pitchers Should Be So Sick	p. 5
Bad Baseball	p. 12
First Inning	p. 19
Harvey	p. 27
Second Inning	p. 33
The Worthy Opposition	p. 38
Third Inning	p. 44
Pittsburgh	p. 49
Fourth Inning	p. 54
Branch Rickey	p. 59
Fifth Inning	p. 65
A Prince of a Guy	p. 70
Sixth Inning	p. 76
Speaking Spanish	p. 82
Seventh Inning	p. 90
The Boss	p. 96
Eighth Inning	p. 102
Ninth Inning	p. 107
Tenth Inning	p. 114
Eleventh Inning	p. 120
Twelfth Inning	p. 127
Thirteenth Inning	p. 135
Aftermath	p. 146
The 1959 Season	p. 155
The Year All Pittsburgh Went Crazy	p. 162
Waxing Eloquent Over Haddix	p. 171
Life After Imperfection	p. 179
Upon Further Review	p. 184
Box Score: Milwaukee 1, Pittsburgh 0	p. 189
Chapter Notes	p. 193
Bibliography	p. 203
Index	p. 205
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