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"The Day Randy Johnson Killed A Bird" (An Oral History)

I enjoy reading oral histories of certain events.

It might be the cult television show Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic, Legs McNeil's Please Kill Me, the earthquake before Game 3 of the 1989 World Series, Pedro's relief performance in Game 5 of the 1999 ALDS, the movie Office Space, or the three impossible-to-believe weeks of the 2004 Red Sox's postseason. (I really like that last one.)

Zach Buchanan (The Athletic) has published an oral history of a brief moment in a spring training game from March 24, 2001, between the Diamondbacks and Giants, in which a pitch from Randy Johnson to Calvin Murray struck and obliterated a bird flying in front of home plate.