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On July 2, 1963, at Candlestick Park, a 42-year-old Warren Spahn and a 25-year-old Juan Marichal walked to the mound, and neither one would come off it. Sixteen innings. Nobody scored through fifteen. Marichal threw 227 pitches. Spahn threw 201, and the last one left the park on Willie Mays' b…

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Everybody knows Babe Ruth hit 714 home runs. Almost nobody remembers that before any of it, he was the best left-handed pitcher in baseball. From 1915 through 1917 he won 18, 23, and 24 games for the Boston Red Sox. He led the American League in 1916 with a 1.75 ERA and nine shutouts. In Game …
Twenty-seven outs. Not one base hit. It is the thing every pitcher dreams about from Little League on, and most of them never get within a mile of it. Six times in Major League Baseball history, a pitching staff threw one and lost the game anyway. Ken Johnson, Houston, 1964. Steve Barber …
Everyone knows The Natural. Robert Redford, Roy Hobbs, Wonder Boy, the home run into the lights. Pure Hollywood fiction, right? Not quite. In June 1949, All-Star first baseman Eddie Waitkus was lured to a room in Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel and shot by Ruth Ann Steinhagen, an obsessed fan …
He was six foot eight. He threw harder than almost anyone alive. And for five and a half seasons, nobody in the National League could touch him. Then, at 30 years old, his arm went dead. This is the story of James Rodney Richard, the pitcher I ranked No. 1 on my list of careers cut short. Back…
https://youtu.be/xSlTygH5nvI - From the Archives Four players. Four careers that should have been legendary. One rookie owned the summer of 1976 and packed every ballpark he pitched in. Another had 100 home runs by age 22. A third set a rookie strikeout record that stood for almost 30 years. T…
The Philadelphia Athletics were once one of baseball’s great powers, a proud American League franchise built by Connie Mack and loaded with names like Jimmie Foxx, Lefty Grove, Mickey Cochrane, and Al Simmons. Then everything fell apart. In this episode of Rounding Third, Peter Lemieux te…
Hi folks, I'm Peter Lemieux with Rounding Third, where I tell baseball stories. Today's story is about a Hall of Famer almost no one remembers, who holds a record that will never be broken. It starts with something that has quietly vanished from the game: the 20-game winner. In the 1950s the b…
The New York Mets just put Bobby Valentine and Lee Mazzilli into the Mets Hall of Fame, and most fans still know Bobby for one thing: the fake mustache. Peter Lemieux of Rounding Third tells the rest of the story, the parts most people have no idea about. Yes, we cover the famous Mustache Game…
Hi folks, I'm Peter Lemieux with Rounding Third, here to share another incredible baseball story with you. We dive deep into mlb history, bringing you classic baseball moments and compelling mlb stories from the archives. Join us as we explore the rich baseball history of the game, celebrating the …
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