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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 5006077, member: 181"] Finally, another baseball memory: I think it's the 3rd or 4th mention of witnessing a triple play in this thread, which is interesting because today I learned that there have only been 735 in MLB history. It averages to about 5 per season. Mine was in 1982, when there were only 4 triple plays that year, and 2 were by the Mets against the Cubs. The first was in August at Wrigley Field. During the final Shea Stadium home stand, the last place Mets held little interest, so I got all 4 tickets for my company's box, and could only interest a friend who lived in Manhattan to join me we with a fellow copywriter from his ad agency. I came in from Syosset and lived in Suffolk County, LI. The total crowd was a meager 3,200 or so. I'd never seen a stadium so empty. My cohorts found the game suitably uninteresting, so they skipped out during an inning to get beers, and missed the triple play. It happened so fast that it was a real, "Wait, what?" experience, and I experienced somewhat alone. Later in the game, my friends decided they'd seen enough on a work night, so they left to catch the 7 train back into the city. I stuck around until the end, or at least close to it. In a late inning, there was a play with either 2 on (or even bases loaded), and a sharp line drive that was caught and gave the fielder a seemingly casual choice of which bag to double up a runner. It was only because there was already one out that it wasn't a second triple play; it was that much of a case of runners breaking off the bag and putting themselves in easy position to get caught. Obviously not as much of a miss for my friends, but they weren't in the stands to see either. And I again experienced it in a weird lonely way. You all believe me, right? Turns out, as Yogi said, "You could look it up." September 29, 1982. It's pretty great that it's so easy to find such baseball stats so easily, and it confirms my impression that baseball cards before age 10 were my gateway drug into multi-sports fandom. Funny that I can only remember the baseball stories. I'm pretty sure I've got some others, maybe even legendary games with Wes B. and Bill Corley's 50 point game, but I was so young that I can't be sure. I did see a Putt-Penn State football game decided by a field goal by one of the Barr brothers (Matt & Chris) who kicked for the opposing teams. Might have been Pitt winning an upset, or going ahead and then losing. I'm not going to look it up...at least not right now. I think it'd be 1975 or 74. [/QUOTE]

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