Asbury Cemetery, Catawba Ohio, Clark county.
Harvey Haddix is one of those pitchers that is remembered for one game he pitched. On May 26, 1959 the Pirates were playing against the Milwaukee Braves. Haddix pitched 12 perfect innings then came the 13th inning. An error by 3rd baseman Don Hoak let Braves batter Felix Mantilla reach first base. Mantilla went to 2nd base from a sacrifice bunt by Eddie Mathews. Hank Aaron was then intentionally walked. Joe Adcock hit a home run but some errors occured. Hank Aaron left the basepaths and was passed by Adcock which caused an out. Score was 2 to 0. National League president ruled the home run a double and the score to 1 to 0. At the time a perfect game was counted if it was 9 innings. In 1991 how a perfect game was counted was changed. It went from a 9 inning game to a game of 9 innings or more. Haddix lost a perfect game twice.
Haddix was with the St. Louis Cardinals from 1952 to 1956.
He was then with the Philadelphia Phillies from 1956 to 1957.
Harvey played for the Cincinnati Reds in 1958.
From 1959 to 1963, Haddix was with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
He finished up his career with the Baltimore Orioles from 1964 to 1965.
Haddix wound up with a record of 136-113. He had a 3.63 ERA and 1575 strikeouts.
There is a book from McFarland Publishing on Haddix.
Hard-Luck Harvey Haddix and the greatest gamed ever lost - Lew Freedman
1956 Topps card.
1962 Post baseball card.
1991 Topps 1953 Archives baseball card.
1994 Topps 1954 Archives baseball card.
