J.C. Bradbury, author of The Baseball Economist: The Real Game Exposed and the upcoming Hot Stove Economics: Understanding Baseball’s Second Season — to be published in October by Springer — wrote about Edwin Jackson’s 149-pitch no-hitter.
I had a little to say about that too on my other blog, in context with the anniversary of the 16-inning game between the Giants and Braves in 1963 in which both starting pitchers — Hall of Famers Juan Marichal and Warren Spahn — went the distance. When men were men.
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