Had Chris Sale been taken off the pitch-count leash yesterday, he probably would have broken the White Sox single-game strikeout record. Seen in this wire photo celebrating that record-setting game on July 25, 1954, is its author, Jack Harshman -- along with batterymate Matt Batts. Side note: Harshman went to the same high school as Ted Williams, one of his strikeout victims on that record-setting day.
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Belying his last name, Harshman seems incredibly happy in just about every photo and baseball card .
And speaking of last names belying things, you had to figure there’d be a photo or two of Matt Batts like this:
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