Baseball (Lore) Continued...

[franklinmint]

In case you didn't find the Koufax game I posted about unbelievable,try the following.I remember Ted Leitner touching on this once during a broadcast once:

Before the modern era of pitch counts,middlemen,and such,pitchers went the distance as far as they could before a reliever was called upon. On July 2nd,1963 two Hall of fame pitchers faced off in Candlestick Park with the winning pitcher having pitched 16 innings;the losing pitcher a paltry 15 and a third. The winning pitcher,Juan Marischal;the loser,Warren Spahn. And how apropos that it would take a homerun by none other than another Hall of famer,Willie Mays,to end it. Final score: 1-0

One can't make this stuff up I tell ya.Unbelievable...Oh,to have a time machine.

Can anyone think of anything in the last 20 to 30 years that kids will be astonished by years from now? Davdesid??? Anyone?

[davdesid]

>>>Can anyone think of anything in the last 20 to 30 years that kids will be astonished by years from now? <<<

Well, I'm old and my view is probably slanted toward the good old days.

There have been some great performances over the years, but the old ones are the ones I'll always remember.

[franklinmint]

Apr 14, 2013 15:40:34 GMT -8 davdesid said:

>>>Can anyone think of anything in the last 20 to 30 years that kids will be astonished by years from now? <<<

Well, I'm old and my view is probably slanted toward the good old days.

There have been some great performances over the years, but the old ones are the ones I'll always remember.

Yeah,I know what you mean about the "old days",but the stuff they did back then is simply unbelievable. You have very good reason to slant that way. We're not likely to ever see a pitcher pitch 10 innings,much less 16. If the Koufax perfect game or this Marichal/Spahn match up were part of a movie script,I'd walk out.

I know we're told we shouldn't compare eras and such,and there's some truth to that,but damn did those old era players seemingly accomplish some unbelievable Superman-like heroics.

No,I can't think of anything like those two games in the last 30 or so years that can compare.

[franklinmint]

By the way,I forgot to mention this,but if my math serves me correctly,Marichal was 25 years old at the time,while Spahn was a youthful 42 years old at game time.

Unbelievable.

[franklinmint]

Said better than I could have said it ... Look at Spahn's war record also.He earned a Purple Heart for Pete's sake. A war hero,and one of the best players of all time? Jeez-us! A man's man for sure.

sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/the_bonus/06/28/kaplan.spahn.marichal/index.html


These kind of stories -- TRUE stories -- really do inspire.

[franklinmint]

It happened today,50 years ago.

www.mercurynews.com/giants/ci_23576887/marichal-spahn-epic-duel-was-50-years-ago