by Pat McManamonFiled under: Indians, Tigers, MLB Umpires
Winning is fleeting, here one minute, gone the next. The path to legend is filled with even more pratfalls, some easily evident, some happenstance.
Armando Galarraga learned all this pitching one June game for the Detroit Tigers this season. Galarraga saw a split-second call change what would have been an historic moment into a win that the record books said was a one-hitter.
In losing legend status, though, Galarraga and the Tigers became legendary. They lived Kipling's words that "If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same ... you'll be a man, my son."
Galaragga stared at a moment that could have been crushing or maddening -- and smiled. More than that, he treated the man who cost him what would have been his ultimate triumph as he would a friend.
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Source: http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/12/29/armando-galarraga-jim-joyce-one-bad-call-the-class-act-of-201/
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