"The ground ball didn't appear to take any sort of bad hop, no matter what the Yankee players were saying afterward. In truth it was the type that Jerry Hairston could field without a bobble 100 times out of 100 under ordinary circumstances."
Bad timing for an error, but baseball players make errors every day.
Obviously, Pettitte wasn't going to throw a shutout, much less a no-hitter, much less a perfect game.
"Baseball infamy." Right. Like Shoeless Joe Jackson or Pete Rose.
I also like the idea of "baseball immortality."
Does anybody remember hard-hittin' Mark Whiten's four-homerun game?
Does anybody remember Len Barker's perfect game? Mike Witt's?
I think John Sterling cheapened the English language with this term and it inexplicably caught on.
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