Hard-Luck Harvey Haddix and the Greatest Game Ever Lost

by Lew Freedman

He pitched a baseball game that was more than perfect, and yet he lost. Southpaw Harvey Haddix had logged a solid but unspectacular career by the time he took the mound on May 26, 1959. Facing the Milwaukee Braves, he set down the first 36 batters in a row, or 12 innings' worth--a perfect game three innings longer than the norm. But his Pittsburgh Pirates couldn't score, either, and Haddix lost in the 13th inning on a controversial play. This book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786441240
• ISBN13: 9780786441242
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher