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Dewayne Wise and the Catch of a Lifetime!
Submitted by Magazine Queen on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 12:23pm
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This must be the summer for South Carolina sports figures to shine! In June, South Carolinian Lucas Glover won the U.S. Open Golf Championship. On July 24th, Columbia native and Chicago White Sox utility outfielder Dewayne Wise made a spectacular ninth inning leaping catch at the wall to preserve pitcher Mark Buehrle’s perfect game – a game where no opposing batter reaches base. How rare is a perfect game? Only sixteen have been pitched since 1900, or put another way, a perfect game is thrown once in every 43,284 opportunities!
Wise didn’t start the game – in fact he was inserted in the top of the ninth inning as a defensive sub in center field because of his speed and glove skills. The manager’s decision to play Wise turned out to be a stroke of genius. The first batter in the ninth sent a ball to deep left center field that should have been a home run. Wise leapt high, extending his glove above the railing to catch the ball, then immediately collided with the wall. As he fell to the ground the ball juggled loose, but he was able to catch it in his bare left hand and make the out. Two outs later Buehrle’s perfect game was one for the record books!
Dewayne Wise’s glove is now enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, NY, and his name will forever be linked with the catch that might be the greatest catch in baseball history. It’s certainly the best catch I’ve ever seen! You can watch the catch and read about the perfect game on the Chicago White Sox Web site. There are also some great articles in Sports Illustrated (which includes a frame-by-frame picture of “the catch”) and the New York Times. If you want to read these from home, Sports Illustrated is full text in General OneFile and EBSCOhost and New York Times can be read in Factiva – just enter the name of the magazine or newspaper in the “Find e-journals” box on the Research Tools page of the RCPL Web site and click on the database, then search for the title of the article. You can also get to Research Tools from the main page by hovering over "Research & Learning" and clicking on "Research Tools".
Jenkins, Lee. "Miracle on the South Side." Sports Illustrated. August 3, 2009, v. 111, no. 4, p. 44-50.
Kepner, Tyler. "Great Catches, Great Games, Forever Linked." New York Times. August 2, 2009, Late ed., Final, Sect. SP, p. 1.
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quite a catch
I bet even he can't believe he made that catch! Way to go SC athletes!!
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