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Effectively Wild Episode 1978: Sam’s Back, on Substack

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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Lawson's Triple Play

"These are not impressive he must have been pressed for column ideas that day I have seen thousands of marvelous catches but only once did I see a ball caught on the back of a man's hand," writes Bob Greene. "I can't dispute that he saw it once but yeah okay okay here he lists a quadruple play which is merely that the short stop got confused and recorded basically caught a line drive and then tagged everybody no it's not very good that's a weak one right"? He continues: "He has a out fielder who mistook the third base coach for his third baseman through the ball at the thirdBase coach ducked and then the throw was wildYeah it's notvery

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