We All Had A Ball

"Winning the pennant that year might have been anticlimactic for the kind of love we had on that team," said emcee Gene Oliver from the podium. However that may be, in 1969 Durocher seems, oddly enough, to have forged a team that couldn't win but did learn how to share a good time.

So you have no complaints?

No complaints? No complaints? What madman built a stadium whose fences are nowhere shorter than 355 feet?

Let me quote to you the testimony of Steve Stone, and also of longtime Chicago baseball writer Richard Dozer, now of The Phoenix Gazette, who was as much of an official scorer as we had: "The ball is out in Fenway."

But...the air in Fenway isn't thin. Yeah, and Hundley's pop-up doesn't go nearly so high, and I catch it and toss it over to Leo.

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