The site referenced in the entry cited here provides play-by-play data from as many games as they can find for baseball games from 1900 and up. Incredible! I remember a game sometime in 1977 or 78 in which Yaz went up for a fly ball at the wall (in Yankee stadium) and caught the ball and lost the mitt and the ball over the wall. I can’t remember what the ruling on it was… homerun or out…
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The site referenced in the entry cited here provides play-by-play data from as many games as they can find for baseball games from 1900 and up. Incredible! I remember a game sometime in 1977 or 78 in which Yaz went up for a fly ball at the wall (in Yankee stadium) and caught the ball and lost the mitt and the ball over the wall. I can’t remember what the ruling on it was… homerun or out…