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Play in the 7th game of the 1946 World Series where St. Louis right fielder Enos Slaughter allegedly ran through third base coach Mike González's stop sign and ran for home, while Boston shortstop Johnny Pesky continued to hold the ball instead of throwing to home, costing the Red Sox the deciding game of the World Series.
Merkle's failure to advance to second base on what should have been a game-winning hit led instead to a force play at second and a tied game. The Cubs later won the makeup game, which proved decisive as they beat the Giants by one game to win the National League (NL) pennant for 1908 .
The play also is referenced in an episode of The Simpsons titled "Brother's Little Helper" [31] and in the musical Johnny Baseball. [32] On October 23, 2008, during former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan 's testimony in House hearings on the economic crisis of 2008 , Representative John Yarmuth referred to Greenspan as one of "three ...
Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History. New York: Smithsonian Books. ISBN 978-0-06-088937-1. Bell, Christopher (2002). Scapegoats : Baseballers Whose Careers Are Marked by One Fateful Play. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-1381-6.
The following is a list of single-game baseball records and unusual events. The following criteria are used for inclusion: The following criteria are used for inclusion: Only events occurring within a single plate appearance , inning , or game are included; cumulative or aggregate records achieved over more than one game are not listed.
The Steve Bartman incident was a controversial play that occurred during a baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and the Florida Marlins on October 14, 2003, at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, during Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2003 postseason
Brockmire is a baseball play-by-play announcer who is fired after a profanity-filled breakdown while live on air after discovering his wife was having an affair. Azaria based the character's voice and broadcasting style on Bob Murphy and Phil Rizzuto and his sport coats on that of Lindsey Nelson .
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