The Greatest Play in Baseball History!!

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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,786
    edited September 2006
    One of the greatest plays or, rather, performance was way back in 1967.

    St. Louis Cardinals. Bob Gibson.

    Took a line drive from Roberto Clemente off his leg that fractured his leg.

    He pitched to 3 more batters before crumbling to the ground.

    A nice little link so I don't get to side-tracked.
    http://www.espn.go.com/classic/s/000726bobgibsonadd.html

    One little tidbit from that link:

    In a spring-training game in the early 1970s, Gibson and equally fiery Tom Seaver of the Mets served notice to one another for the upcoming season. Both benches were stunned when the two beaned each other during the exhibition game.
    Sal Palooza
  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited September 2006
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    Those flag burners got PWN3D!
  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited September 2006
    GV#27 wrote:
    Thats a classic.At least it hit him on a part of the body that wouldn't hurt.:D

    hearingmpared ,wasn't it Mitch the so called WILD THING Williams that served up the beauty pitch.

    Yeah it was Mitch Williams - the - wild thing. . . everytime that guy went to the mound we all had heart attacks. He could really throw some smoke though but I gotta tell ya any major leaguer worth his salt can hit a fast ball so he wasn't my kind of closer. I like closers who throw the off speed stuff that cause harmless grounders.