HARVEY HADDIX

Harvey Haddix of the Pittsburgh Pirates pitched 12 perfect innings, and then lost the game 1-0 in the bottom of the 13th with an error, an intentional walk to Hank Aaron, and a double. Harvey Haddix stood motionless as Joe Adcock rounded second after breaking up Haddix's no-hitter in the 13th inning in 1959. That game happened in 1959, six years before I was born, and yet by reading about it as a child, I made it part of my childhood. Harvey Haddix died of emphysema at age 68 in 1994 and is buried in the western Ohio farm country where he was born and raised. Haddix took a perfect game into the 13th inning before losing the
Tuesday is the 50th anniversary of a great pitching feat in baseball history: Harvey Haddix's near perfect game for the Pirates against the Milwaukee Braves. By JOHN LOWE • FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER • May 26, 2009 On Monday afternoon in Milwaukee, Cardinals right-hander Chris Carpenter and Milwaukee right-hander.

We're celebrating a super-cool anniversary today as Harvey Haddix's perfect 12 innings in Pittsburgh's 13-inning loss to Milwaukee — perhaps the greatest pitching performance in history (with due apologies to Don Larsen) — turns 50. On Tuesday, May 26 - the 50th anniversary of Champaign County native Harvey Haddix's 12-inning perfect game - the Champaign County Historical Society,. [PG] And the [Trib version]How cool is it that the Braves admitted to stealing the signs off.

Didn't anyone else ever lose a thirteen inning shutout?" - Harvey Haddix. The Clark County Historical Society in Springfield Ohio is marking the 50th anniversary of Harvey Haddix's near perfect 12 inning game which he ended up LOSING. The winning pitcher, Lew Burdette of the Milwaukee.

(September 18, 1925 – January 8, 1994) was a Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher who played with the St. At County Stadium in Milwaukee, Harvey Haddix, a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, threw a perfect game against the Milwaukee Braves, the two-time reigning winners of the National League pennant. The Historical Society event will have baseball themed concessions and. In fact, it was 50 years ago today that Harvey Haddix (pitching for Pittsburgh) took a perfect game into the 13th. Thanks to "The Baseball Project," a 13-song CD valentine to our national pastime, another generation has come to know Harvey Haddix, an under-appreciated Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher.

For you soccer fans out there a perfect game is when no. News-Sun archives Harvey Haddix pitched for the Cincinnati Redlegs in 1959 and was a pitching coach in Cincinnati in 1969. When it was all in the books, Harvey Haddix had become the first pitcher in. When I saw today was the anniversary of Harvey Haddix's feat, it made me think about being a sports writer. Harvey Haddix took a perfect game into the thirteenth inning of a 1959 game against the Braves, only to watch in despair as he lost not only. 1959: Harvey Haddix of Pittsburgh pitched 12 perfect innings before losing to the Milwaukee Braves, 1-0, in the 13th on an error, a sacrifice and Joe.

com) commemorates the 50th anniversary of Harvey Haddix pitching 12 perfect innings -- and losing in the 13th. On May 12, 1959, Pirate starter Harvey Haddix tied up with Lew Burdette of the then Milwaukee Braves in a monumental pitching duel in what baseball. Tuesday is the 50th anniversary of a great pitching feat in baseball history: Harvey Haddix's near perfect game for the Pirates against the Milwaukee Braves in 1959.

I saw an excellent article in Sunday's New York Times sports page about the "perfect" game Harvey Haddix pitched in 1959. Together, they sparked the memory of one of the best pitching performances ever, a 12-inning perfect game by Pittsburgh's Harvey Haddix, which happened 50. It was the greatest pitched ball game in the history of baseball, and it was a loss.

Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings fifty years ago today. After the third out of the inning Prince excitedly told his audience that Pittsburgh pitcher Harvey Haddix was getting a standing ovation from the Milwaukee. Fifty years ago today, the Pirates' Harvey Haddix .

At County Stadium in Milwaukee, Harvey Haddix, a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, threw a perfect game against the Milwaukee Braves, the two-time.