“The Greatest Game Ever Pitched” At 50

July 2, 2013 by Jim Kaplan · Leave a Comment

Today is the 50th anniversary of a pitching duel I chronicled in a book called “The Greatest Game Ever Pitched.” On July 2-3, 1963, 42-year-old Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves and 25-year-old Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants staged a 16-inning, 428-pitch clash that might still be going if it weren’t for a […]

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New Baseball Terminology

January 21, 2011 by Austin Gisriel · Leave a Comment

Last week my wife, Martha, and I came across the word atavism and neither of us knew the meaning. I suggested that it meant “possessing the qualities of an ata.” That was wrong. We looked it up and discovered that it actually means “the tendency to revert to ancestral type.” Kind of like what Brady […]

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