Siempre recordar\u00c3\u00a9 la noche del 14 de julio de 1970. Pap\u00c3\u00a1 me hab\u00c3\u00ada enviado a la cama por en\u00c3\u00a9sima vez. Lo disputado del Juego de las Estrellas hizo que accediera a mis solicitudes para que me dejara otro rato m\u00c3\u00a1s. Pero cuando el juego se empat\u00c3\u00b3 en el noveno inning Pap\u00c3\u00a1 me llev\u00c3\u00b3 personalmente al cuarto. La presencia de Luis Aparicio, Ray Fosse y Clarence Gaston en el juego me hizo regresar a la sala. La intensidad del juego me permiti\u00c3\u00b3 asomarme detr\u00c3\u00a1s del sof\u00c3\u00a1 sin que Pap\u00c3\u00a1 se diera cuenta. As\u00c3\u00ad lleg\u00c3\u00b3 el cierre del duod\u00c3\u00a9cimo inning. Luego de 2 outs, Pete Rose y Bill Grabarkewitz sonaron sencillos ante Clyde Wright. Pap\u00c3\u00a1 volte\u00c3\u00b3 y encog\u00c3\u00ad el cuello detr\u00c3\u00a1s del sof\u00c3\u00a1. Jim Hickman solt\u00c3\u00b3 una l\u00c3\u00adnea al centerfield. Rose dobl\u00c3\u00b3 como b\u00c3\u00b3lido por tercera. Fosse se cuadr\u00c3\u00b3 delante del plato a esperar el tiro de Amos Otis. Rose choc\u00c3\u00b3 contra Fosse y lo hizo dar varias vueltas de carnero. La Liga Nacional venci\u00c3\u00b3 5-4. La impresi\u00c3\u00b3n del choque me hizo gritar. Pap\u00c3\u00a1 not\u00c3\u00b3 mi presencia y sal\u00c3\u00ad corriendo hacia el cuarto donde me lance con todo sobre la cama. Varios a\u00c3\u00b1os despu\u00c3\u00a9s me enter\u00c3\u00a9 que Fosse continu\u00c3\u00b3 jugando el resto de la temporada. Al finalizar la misma se hizo unos rayos X que revelaron fractura en el hombro. Esa temporada Fosse bate\u00c3\u00b3 sobre los .300 y jug\u00c3\u00b3 m\u00c3\u00a1s de 100 partidos en Grandes Ligas. He sabido de otros juegos de Estrellas vibrantes como el de 1955 cuando Stan Musial dej\u00c3\u00b3 en el terreno a la Liga Americana con cuadrangular ante Frank Sullivan en el inning 12 para ganar 6-5; o el primero de 1961 cuando Roberto Clemente conect\u00c3\u00b3 el hit de oro ante Hoyt Wilhelm en el d\u00c3\u00a9cimo inning para que ganara la Liga Nacional 5-4, o el de 1967 que decidi\u00c3\u00b3 Tany P\u00c3\u00a9rez con jonr\u00c3\u00b3n en el d\u00c3\u00a9cimoquinto episodio con vuelacercas ante Catfish Hunter para un triunfo 2-1 de la Liga Nacional, o el jonr\u00c3\u00b3n de Hank Blalock en el octavo inning del juego de 2003 para darle la victoria 7- 6 a la Liga Americana. Ninguno como aquel de 1970. <\/p>\n
Alfonso L. Tusa C. <\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll always remember that July night of 1970. Dad asked me to go to bed a lot of times. The pitchers Tom Seaver, Jim Palmer, Jim Merritt and Sam McDowell kept the game scoreless until the sixth frame. Dad pumped his right fist when Ray Fosse scored the first run on Carl Yastrzemski\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s single against Gaylord Perry.
\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s go guys\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Dad shouted.
\n I approached the TV set. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That team isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to win this game\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.
\nDad wrinkled his forehead. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Which one?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The American League\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.
\nDad showed me the way to my bedroom.
\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ok, ok, Dad. Maybe the American League could win\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.
\n In the bottom of the seventh the National League loaded the bases but only scored once. Dad hit the palm of his left hand with his right fist when Willie McCovey grounded into doubleplay. He started to whistle \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Take me out to the ballgame\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when Brooks Robinson smacked a triple against Bob Gibson that put the score 4-1.
\n When Roberto Clemente lined out a sacrifice fly to tie the game 4- 4 in the bottom of the ninth, Dad took me to my bedroom.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Come on Dad! Are you afraid that your team might lose?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n The intensity of the game glued Dad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eyes into the TV set. This let me watch the game from behind the sofa.
\nAt the bottom of the twelfth inning, Pete Rose and Bill Garbarkewitz hit singles after two outs. Dad looked back. I hid under the sofa. Jim Hickman batted a single to centerfield. Rose passed through third base as a train. Fosse stepped in front of home plate to wait Amos Otis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 throw. Rose collided against Fosse and knocked him to the ground. The collision impact made me shout.
\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yooohoo. The National League won 5-4\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.
\nDad looked at me and the chase started. I ran harder than Pete Rose and jumped over my bed. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard of other All Star games but none as intense as that one of 1970.<\/p>\n
Alfonso L. Tusa C<\/p>\n
Alfonso is a writer whose work has been featured in Venezuela\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s daily newspaper, El Nacional and in the magazine Gente en Ambiente, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s collaborated on several articles for newspapers, including the daily paper Tal Cual. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also written three books and biographies for SABR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s BioProject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Siempre recordar\u00c3\u00a9 la noche del 14 de julio de 1970. Pap\u00c3\u00a1 me hab\u00c3\u00ada enviado a la cama por en\u00c3\u00a9sima vez. Lo disputado del Juego de las Estrellas hizo que accediera a mis solicitudes para que me dejara otro rato m\u00c3\u00a1s. Pero cuando el juego se empat\u00c3\u00b3 en el noveno inning Pap\u00c3\u00a1 me llev\u00c3\u00b3 personalmente al […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8740,2057,8743,6003,5019,280,3784,5015,3029,8738,8744,8739,73,8745,8742,1850,5999,8741,2368,4573],"class_list":["post-6599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-14-de-julio","tag-all-star-game","tag-carnero","tag-catfish-hunter","tag-cuello","tag-frank-sullivan","tag-hank-blalock","tag-hombro","tag-hoyt-wilhelm","tag-jim-hickman","tag-la-cama","tag-liga-nacional","tag-luis-aparicio","tag-otis","tag-otros-juegos","tag-pete-rose","tag-ray-fosse","tag-rayos-x","tag-roberto-clemente","tag-stan-musial"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}