can be found here:
http://www.baseball-almanac.com If it's not there yet, it will be; it's a work in progress. I absolutely am in love with this site. Is there a game that will always stay in your memory?
I remember a game from 1974. I'd cut classes and hitchhiked with a friend to Washington DC to take part in a Dump Nixon rally. We got there a day early, so we hitched to Baltimore for a game.
It was one of those games where baseball put on an exhibition of why it is so great; a meaningless early season game that was just phenomenal. Friday, April 26th, 1974.
Vida Blue vs Jim Palmer. 15 innings. Oakland sent 62 men to the plate, Baltimore 54 (plus walks and SFs). Reggie Jackson and Joe Rudi both went 4 for 7, Jackson with 2 home runs. Blue and Palmer both went 9 innings, allowing only 4 earned runs between them. Brooks Robinson made 2 errors, and 3 diving catches and started 2 double plays, one of a liner that turned into a rally killing DP in extra innings. Reggie homered in the top of the 12th, Baltimore pulled even in the bottom of the inning. Joe Rudi made 2 spectacular catches in left field. Andy Etchebarren stole a base! 15 innings, Baltimore 6 Oakland 5.
I just don't remember how Baltimore scored the winning run, but I DO remember that we were stuck in Baltimore after midnight with no idea how to get back to DC and the friend's place we were crashing at. We took a bus to DC, but then had to get to somewhere in Virginia. We wound up walking along the Beltway for most of the night until we found a pay phone and woke up Kurt, who surprisingly enough thought the whole thing was funny. I thought he was going to freak on us, but he drove out to wherever it was that we were and got us to safety.
You can find the box score for the game here:
"The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 26, 1974 at Memorial Stadium. The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Oakland Athletics and the box score is "'ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye.'"
http://baseball-almanac.com/box-scor...d=197404260BAL
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