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Pastimes : Famous Last Words
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To: MIKFREE who wrote ()6/10/2000 12:45:00 AM
From: mr.mark   of 951
 
Thursday, June 8, 2000
San Francisco Chronicle
Top Of The Sixth - Tom Fitzgerald

A GIANT'S PITCH FOR LASTING
FAME

Don Liddle's big-league career was mostly
unremarkable -- 28 victories over four seasons --
after a long apprenticeship in the minors. But one of
his pitches has been seen by generations of baseball
fans in the 46 years since it was thrown.

Liddle, who died Monday at the age of 75, threw the
pitch to Vic Wertz in the 1954 World Series that
Willie Mays turned into one of the most celebrated
catches in history.

In Game 1, Liddle was summoned by New York
Giants manager Leo Durocher to face Cleveland's
Wertz (lefty against lefty) in the eighth inning with
the score tied at 2-2 and runners on first and second
with nobody out. Wertz drove Liddle's first pitch to
the deepest part of the Polo Grounds, just to the right
of dead center field. Mays, racing with his back to
the plate, caught the ball over his left shoulder some
450 feet away.

When Marv Grissom relieved him, Liddle told him:
``Well, I got my man.''
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