It was the next-to-last day of the 1973 baseball season for the Atlanta Braves… Saturday, September 29th to be precise… and next Friday will mark the 44th anniversary of that date.
During that year, an unremarkable Braves team finished with a 76-85 record as they dropped the season’s final contest on Sunday to the Houston Astros.
However, there was unfinished business – an event on Saturday that got the buzz going.
It wasn’t Carl Morton‘s 6 hit, complete game shutout of the Astros – impressive as that was. No – this event happened in the 5th inning during a 5-run Braves outburst at Fulton County Stadium.