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In 1952, Ted Williams plays his final game before leaving for military duty in Korea. In his last at-bat on “Ted Williams Day” at Fenway Park, he blasts a game-winning, two-run home run against Dizzy Trout of the Detroit Tigers. The home run gives the Red Sox a 5 – 3 victory.
Six years later, Williams becomes the tenth major league player to tally 1,000 extra-base hits in a 10-4 loss to the Kansas City Athletics at Fenway.
Ted Williams At War
, by Bill Nowlin
In 1988, The New York Mets and Cincinnati Reds hook up in a wild game at Riverfront Stadium that the Mets pull out 6 – 5, on a delayed call by first base umpire Dave Pallone. The call results in a $10,000 fine and 30-day suspension of Reds manager Pete Rose when Pallone accidentally pokes Rose in the cheek and Rose shoves Pallone twice during the argument which follows.
Bookshelf note: I wonder if Pallone would have gained enough notoriety without this incident to publish his book, Behind the Mask: My Double Life in Baseball
is available on Amazon.com,
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