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Missing favorite, Chapter 3: The Big Quit in Giants Stadium

The series offered last week by the Star Tribune sports staff was based on “favorite event covered,’’ and included an impressive variety of happenings.

There were three elite events that I fretted would be overlooked by the panel of wordsmiths, and thus went the blog route to provide these with a bit of recognition.

We covered Captain Dynamite blowing himself up behind second base at Met Stadium in 1978, and Bobby Heenan being placed in a pink weasel in 1980 at the St. Paul Civic Center, on back-to-back days last week.

Then, nothing. “What happened to No.