----~------- THE -----~----- National G Pastime A REVIEW OF BASEBALL HISTORY Harvey Haddix sadly didn't live to celebrate the A big part of my job is mixing each issue to make 35th anniversary of his great game, but we remember sure we have a good mix of eras, topics, teams, person­ it here with Bill Perry's cover art and Steve Stout's lead alities, perspectives, and contributors old and new. article. In this year of the resurgent Indians and the Submissions are way up, and this is the largest Na­ opening of Jacobs Field, we've also got a cluster of tional Pastime we've ever published. The Board has Cleveland-related pieces. And four authors have con­ voted to allow even larger issues in the future, if mate­ tributed articles that focus on baseball during World rial warrants it. It's up to you to make this happen. War I!. -M.A. "The Greatest Game Ever Pitched" Steve Stout 3 House of David Baseball Richard E. Derby, Jr. and Jim Coleman 7 Clutch Pitching Does Exist! Robert L. Tiemann 11 The Louisville Colonels of 1889 Bob Bailey 14 Smokey and the Bandit Larry Lester 18 Say It Ain't So, Ty: The Cobb-Speaker Scandal Mark Alvarez 21 The Hoak Hoax Everardo J. Santamarina 29 Team All-Time Records AlYellon 31 Women Umpires as Mirrors of Gender Roles Gai Ingham Berlage, Ph.D 34 Benny Mc(:oy Ta~l Feldman 39 A Career in the Minors Howard Green 42 Rabbit Night in Cleveland Lenore Stoaks 45 Magic Square Quiz Bob Carr 47 Bid McPhee Ralph C. Moses · 48 Almost Perfect: Johnny Allen in 1937 Jim Sumner 51 Mark Twain and the Great Base Ball Match Darryl Brock 55 The Manilla Dodgers Irvin K. Kawarsky ~ .. 59 U.S. Little League World Series Participants Charlie Bevis u ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 66 Elmer Gedeon: A major league war hero Joseph D. 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City, State, Zip: ____ Make checks payable to: Home Phone: WorkPhone: _ SABR PO Box 93183 Birthdate: _ OCC: ~P14 Cleveland 08 44101 Allow 3-4 weeks for delivery Harvey, Haddix tossed his classic 35 years ago this season-and the Braves had his signs e Greatest Game Ever Pitched" Steve Stout The 1994 baseball season marks the 35th anniver­ that fateful day in Pittsburgh, rising at 6 AM to fly to Mil­ sary of Harvey Haddix's unprecedented 12-inning waukee. perfect game, and with each passing year, additional Fighting a cold for over a week, Haddix took a nap in information about that rainy night in Milwaukee seems his Milwaukee hotel room in the afternoon and had his to trickle in. traditional steak dinner before heading out to the Haddix retired the first 36 batters in a row the ballpark. evening of May 26, 1959, only to lose the game, 1-0, in During the pre-game clubhouse meeting, Haddix the 13th inning. and Burgess mapped out plans on how to stifle Adding to the luster of that incomparable achieve­ Milwaukee's fierce attack. ment, it has recently been revealed the Braves were "When we had gone over the plan a few times-pitch on-we felt pretty confident," said Haddix dtlring an on that aspect of the game later.) interview shortly before his January 8, 1994 death. To establish the magnitude of Haddix's feat, con­ "Our third baseman, Don Hoak, heard how we were sider that the powerful Braves were coming off planning to pitch the hitters that night, and Hoakie consecutive World Series appearances, and they would said, 'Harv, if you pitch 'em like that, you'll throw a no­ end the '59 campaign just behind the L(os Angeles hitter.' 'T'hat broke up the meeting, and we never Dodgers in the National League pennant race. finished it." When you take a close look at the Braves' potent (Ironically, it was Hoak's throwing error after cleanly starting lineup on May 26, 1959, you can begin to un­ fielding a Felix Mantilla grounder in the 13th inning derstand WIlY Haddix's feat is called the "gteatest ganle that ended the perfect ganle.) ever pitched." A glance at Pittsburgh Manager Danny Murtaugh's Among the Milwaukee starters that evening were a lineup card that night gave Haddix a shock-standouts pair of Hall of Famers, Hank Aaron and Eddie Roberto Clemente and Dick Groat were not in the Pi­ Mathews, and the non-Hall of Famers were of All-Star rates' starting nine. quality-Johnny Logan, Wes Covington, Del Crandall, In their place, Haddix found Roman Mejias and Dick Andy Pafko and Joe Adcock, who eventually broke the Schofield.