Spahn-Marichal Marathon: Best-Pitched Game?
July 2, 2011 by Dan Schlossberg · 3 Comments
Long before pitch counts, five-man rotations, and an array of relief pitchers became the backbone of baseball philosophy, two future Hall of Famers locked horns in a 16-inning marathon that both completed. According to author Jim Kaplan, who chronicled that July 2, 1963 match in a book called The Greatest Game Ever Pitched, it will […]
