Augusts in Africa by Thomas McIntyre

Author:Thomas McIntyre
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2016-08-01T16:00:00+00:00

Perfect Game

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow …

A FEW FAR from final words about Cape buffalo.

In a frame on the wall, the yellow stub has printed on it in black and red letters, “Field Box, $3.50, Chicago CUBS vs. Los Angeles DODGERS, DODGER STADIUM, THU. SEP. 9, 1965.” There was no place else on earth quite like Dodger Stadium then, especially for a 13-year-old. It was another day when Walter O’Malley owned the team and kept his rampant polar bear mount on display in the Stadium Club. With its wide band of upper-deck seats painted a shade of aqua, like seawater over a bottom of marled sand, and with banks of halide lights creating an artificial sun, stepping into the stadium somehow gave the sensation of venturing into a marine environment, like wading out onto the flats to fish. As unequaled as the stadium was maybe the team itself, with Drysdale, Wills, and the Davises. And that Thursday night in Dodger Stadium there was absolutely no other figure in sports even the remote rival of Sanford Koufax.

It wasn’t supposed to be a pitching duel, something you might expect from a, say, Juan Marichal–Koufax matchup. The Cubs starter was another southpaw, Bob Hendley, who would have only a seven-year career with lackluster teams, and a middling win-loss record; and he would be facing the “Left Arm of God,” even though Koufax was already experiencing the arthritis that would rob him of his meteor fastball. Hendley, though, would pitch the game of his life; regrettably, for him, so would Sandy.

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