The greatest game ever pitched

"Spahn, 42, entered the game with an 11-3 record, had just set the alltime lefthanders' mark of 328 wins and hadn't surrendered a walk in 18 1/3 innings. Marichal, 25, was 12-3 with a 2.38 ERA and had no-hit Houston 17 days earlier.”

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“San Francisco manager Alvin Dark kept asking Marichal if he wanted out. ‘Alvin, do you see that man pitching on the other side?’ Marichal told him. ‘He's 42 and I'm 25, and you can't take me out until that man is not pitching.’"

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/the_bonus/06/28/kaplan.spahn.marichal/index.html#ixzz2E7QYhWMl

(Marichal remembered a bit differently when talking about the game two years ago during a televised game. After the 13th inning, he said, Dark told him he was coming out. “I told him, ‘You cannot take me out. Do you see that man out there? He is 42 years old. You cannot take me out.”)

Box score and a lot of stats that … are stats.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN196307020.shtml