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Sunday, April 6, 2025

Wednesday in the Park - You Know It Was the 4th of July

 

TRIVIA WINNER: Don Mossi and Bill Monboquette were the pitchers who got the decisions in Satchel Paige's last MLB game. 15 points toward the person's total

NEW TRIVIA CONTEST: You will still be required to enter the drawing as usual. However,  through June 2025 you will get points depending on the complexity of the questions. Enter each week and correct answers will get those points-one guess per person per week. The reader with the most points after June's final column will get a $50 Starbucks Gift Card. Ties will be placed into a drawing. Tell your friends and sports fans who like trivia. We will keep track of your points. - YOU MUST ENTER VIA THE EMAIL AT THE END OF THIS COLUMN.

NEW TRIVIA QUESTION: Who was the Milwaukee Brave who led the Majors in triples in 1960? TOTAL 10 POINTS

And it wasn't even in Chicago. Sort of a paraphrase of a song by "Chicago," but this one deals with a double duty loss by the Tigers to the Indians. Just 21,000 fans showed up in Cleveland Stadium that July 4th, 1962 to see the Tigers score a total of two runs in the double dip. This was probably a double header any fan would pay to see who was not rooting for the Tigers.

The first game was one for the ages as Jim Perry battled Hank Aguirre all the way, with Perry himself scoring the only run of the game. It happened in the bottom of the ninth. Something you will never see today. Perry led off the inning with a single, Willie Tasby bunted him over. Perry took third on a single by Tito Francona and pinch-hitter Gene Green (batting for Ty Cline) singled Perry home with the walk off win. 

The most interesting part of that is that they let Perry hit and pinch-hit for Cline! Aguirre took the loss giving up just four hits until the ninth inning. 

The Tigers fell in the second game as well. It was 6-2. Doc Edwards homered and Don Dillard hit a grand slam in the bottom of the 13th to win it. Chuck Essegian, Woody Held and Jerry Kindall all got on base before Dillard took Jerry Casale deep to win the second walk off of the day.

Barry Latman and Don Mossi each went eight innings and each gave up just one run but neither got a decision.

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