Hard-Luck Harvey Haddix and the Greatest Game Ever Lost

Know about the book -

Hard-Luck Harvey Haddix and the Greatest Game Ever Lost is written by Lew Freedman and published by McFarland. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0786454199 (ISBN 10) and 9780786454198 (ISBN 13).

He pitched a baseball game that was more than perfect, and yet he lost. Southpaw Harvey Haddix had logged a solid but unspectacular career by the time he took the mound on May 26, 1959. Facing the Milwaukee Braves, he set down the first 36 batters in a row, or 12 innings' worth--a perfect game three innings longer than the norm. But his Pittsburgh Pirates couldn't score, either, and Haddix lost in the 13th inning on a controversial play. This book recounts Haddix's one-of-a-kind performance and describes the official decisions that changed the historical record.