Here is a scan of the card, if anyone can help.
Joe Adcock was also involved in probably the strangest major league game ever played. After 12 perfect innings by Harvey Haddix on a fateful 1959 summer eve, Eddie Matthews, Henry Aaron, and Joe Adcock - all world class sluggers of the era - finally got to Haddix. If memory serves, two of them walked and the other hit a three run homerun. But the All-Star sluggers, though certainly initimately familiar with the homerun, inexplicably passed each other illegally on the basepaths. Two were ruled out and it was counted as a solo shot and Milwaukee won the game 1-0, or something like that - thus ending Haddix's unparalleled pitching performance. Somebody please give me the details on this where I'm wrong. I tried to tell this story at a poker game recently and realized, though I once knew the details, I had forgotten them. It's something like I've said here but is probably slightly different.
All you baseball aficiadoes: Help! It makes a great story. I want to know the details again so I can tell it right. I may even carry this card in my wallet for a while.
Cinch
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