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...advice to anyone who was in the stands when David Wells pitched his perfect game for the New York Yankees last week is simple: Have your ticket stub notarized. Otherwise, nobody is going to believe you. I speak as someone who was there when Carl DeRose pitched his perfect game for the Kansas City Blues of the American Association in 1947. Yes, I was. Really...
...remember where we were sitting--about halfway up, on the third-base side. I remember the triumphant look on the face of Carl DeRose, a righthander who'd been troubled with a sore arm all year...
Within a few weeks of the evening I accompanied my father to Rupert Stadium and saw Carl DeRose make history, nobody believed me. My attendance would often come up naturally in conversation. Charlie Adams might be talking about how you could distinguish a Buick Roadmaster from a Buick Super because the Roadmaster had four ornamental holes on the side of its hood instead of three, and I'd say, "Speaking of which, it was like those batters had holes in their bats when Carl DeRose was mowing them down. I happened to be there." Then somebody, maybe the deeply cynical...
That's what it was like for me, year after year: "Tell me another one" or "Oh, sure, we believe that" or "Tell it to the Marines." Looking back, I think that witnessing Carl DeRose's perfect game--which at first struck me as the greatest piece of good fortune that had ever come my way--was the experience that caused me to move away from Kansas City. I just couldn't take the pressure...
About 15 students showed up for the meeting in Currier House. Also present were Carl A. Tempesta, manager of facilities and passenger transport services, and Philip A. Bean, assistant to Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...