Louis Post-Dispatch’s Bill Mauldin and others, but Post Publisher Philip Graham decided that Herblock needed a fulltime pinch hitter. Herblock agreed. “He went madly for the idea,” said Graham.
Larsen took it from there, striking out pinch-hitter Dale Mitchell for out No. 27 in the ninth. The right-hander needed just 97 pitches to make history, catching the leaping catcher Yogi Berra in his ...