Two months after Jim Hearn threw his final major league pitch, he was charged with one last defeat. The strange sequence began with a Sunday curfew that froze a Pirates-Phillies game in progress—and ended only after Hearn had already retired from baseball.

🕵️ Inside The Original Newspaper Coverage you’ll learn:

  • Why Pennsylvania law halted the game.

  • The home run that sealed Hearn's fate.

  • How baseball's scoring rules made it possible.

🕵️ Replay Today: July 13, 1986

Travel back 40 years ago to the day, and experience baseball as fans saw it that day with one original newspaper page featuring:

  • Houston and San Francisco stay in lock step

  • Mickey Mantle weighs in on drugs in baseball

  • Red Sox pitcher: “I’m an angry young man.”

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Box scores, standings, stories, and the original sports writing exactly as fans saw it the next day.

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  • Daily access to original baseball newspaper pages
  • Box scores, standings, and vintage sportswriting

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