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Originally Posted by sperry
The Gibson homerun is the second most incredible thing I've ever seen in Baseball history... (second only to the day Cal broke the iron-horse record). It's just a shame that it happened against my childhood hero, Dennis Eckersley. I was seriously disturbed for like 3 weeks after that game... it took about 10 years before I started to realize how unbelieveably amazing that Dodger's victory was. It was like The Natural, but for real. I almost feel bad that I'll never truely appreciate it like Dodgers fans did, but I'm an A's far for life, and forever a Dodger hater.
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1. fuck Gibson (I think I covered that before)
2. Ripkins ironman record is a fucking sham. He did not play every inning of every game like Lou Gehrig did. Cal would play the 7 innings to get the full game in the books and pull himself out. He would even DH just to make sure to keep his streak running.
Gehrig played every inning of every game for that entire streak.