Bill Diggs

Though I was never good enough to play the game, I've always loved baseball -- the strategies, the intracasies, the numbers -- I was a nerd before the word was even invented. They used to call us "bookworms". I stayed involved by being the groundskeeper, the official scorer, the statistician, the organizer, the manager, etc. This little excerpt from my (unpublished) novella, "The Greatest Game Ever Played" records my experiences during the exciting 1959 pennant race, culminated by one of the most dramatic finishes of all time.