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Nobody's Perfect: Two Men, One Call, and a Game for Baseball History
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The Detroit Tigers, an umpire, a pitcher, and a mistake—one of the "classic, human, baseball stories" (Ken Burns, creator of the PBS miniseries Baseball).
The perfect game is one of the rarest accomplishments in sports. In nearly four hundred thousand contests in over 130 years, it has happened only twenty times. On June 2, 2010, Armando Galarraga threw baseball's twentyfirst. Except that's not how it entered the record books. That's because Jim Joyce, voted the best umpire in the game in ...