Harvey Haddix
Today marks the 57th anniversary of what is perhaps the greatest baseball game ever thrown by a pitcher.
On May 26, 1959, in Harvey Haddix’s first season with the Pirates, the Medway, Ohio southpaw retired 36 Milwaukee Braves batters for a perfect game through 12 innings, but his team couldn’t score. Haddix lost the perfect game when Don Hoak threw a routine grounder in the dirt, then lost the no-hitter and the game when Joe Adcock launched a ball over the right-center field fence.
Haddix was later immortalized by The Baseball Project, which asks in its chrous, “Why don’t we add ‘ol Harvey to the list?”
Author: Dirk Lammers
https://www.nonohitters.com/about-the-author/ Dirk Lammers is a veteran journalist who began rooting for the New York Mets in the early-1970s when the team’s no no-hitter count was barely 2,000 games old. Lammers has since turned his research into Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders: More Than a Century of Pitching’s Greatest Feats (Unbridled Books) and NoNoHitters.com, where he maintains the Internet's largest archive of no-hitter information.
Pittsburgh @Pirates’ Harvey Haddix tosses 12 perfect innings and loses, 57 years ago today. @BaseballProject … https://t.co/BRGh2Zpkto
RT @nonohitters: Pittsburgh @Pirates’ Harvey Haddix tosses 12 perfect innings and loses, 57 years ago today. @BaseballProject … https://t…
RT @nonohitters: Pittsburgh @Pirates’ Harvey Haddix tosses 12 perfect innings and loses, 57 years ago today. @BaseballProject … https://t…
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