Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-i Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:ags From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: Someone didn't catch me! Message-ID: <350@pucc-i> Date: Tue, 10-Jul-84 01:50:57 EDT Article-I.D.: pucc-i.350 Posted: Tue Jul 10 01:50:57 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 11-Jul-84 00:21:11 EDT References: <193@ganehd.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 19 > You all call yourself baseball fans?! Ha! You guys (and any gals out there) > didn't even catch my mistake! > > I put in an article that the 1950 Indians won 113 games and lost the series > to St. Louis. Well, folks, it was the 1951 Cleveland Indians who won 113 > games and lost to the Giants. That was the year of "The shot heard around > the world" and the famed Willie Mays over-the-shoulder catch, on the dead run. > And we all know who hit it! I hope so, if not, it's a good trivia question > for you. > > Sorry for the mistake! Of course. That ball was hit by Vic Wertz. In 1954. I hope you don't think you are fooling anybody. -- Dave Seaman "My hovercraft is full of eels." ..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags