Nice Addition
When Mark Buehrle threw a perfect game earlier this year, I had last year’s album by The Baseball Project in heavy rotation. That immediately brought one question to mind – how would they work Buehrle into the song “Harvey Haddix.”
The song chronicles the gem pitched by Haddix in 1959 where he pitched 12 perfect innings only to lose the masterpiece and the game in the 13th inning. Major League Baseball has stupidly not recognized his game officially as a perfect game. The chorus of the song lists all the guys who threw perfect games prior to this season.
I had forgotten about this curiosity until I noticed something on R.E.M.’s web page – Peter Buck plays bass in the band – about The Baseball Project’s tour. So I hit up Youtube and found that frontman Steve Wynn did indeed make the song factually accurate.
Poor Steve Wynn
May 30, 2010[…] The lyrics both recount the spectacular feat, urge for Haddix’s name to return to the list and tick off everyone who has thrown a perfect game in baseball’s modern era. The catalog of the 17 names on the list fascinated me. Then something happened last year. Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox added his name to the list, forcing Wynn and the band to slightly alter the song. […]