Postwar Era

After the war the game was on the radio, and then on television, and a pennant race could be heard across the country. The famous pitch of these years won a playoff the Giants had already been reading.

Around that homer are the stunts and the baserunning the highlight left uncomplicated. A man three feet seven inches tall walked. A runner scored from first because the relay hesitated. A perfect game lasted twelve innings and was lost in the thirteenth.