In today's episode, "Whitey" Greensward goes up in an epic clash against a first-class post-ball hurler, and the fans get their money's worth. There's also a few clashes at GHQ over the investigation.

In case anyone is curious: in the 150 or so years that top-rank professional baseball has been played, there have been a few cases where double no-hit games, or no-hit games going past the regulation nine innings, have occurred. In 1917, Fred Toney and Hippo Vaughn battled it out, each throwing a no-hitter through nine innings before Vaughn lost his no-hitter, and the game, in the 10th inning (Toney kept his). In 1959, Harvey Haddix took a perfect game into the 13th inning against a very powerful Braves team, before losing. And there is a case on record (from 1920) where *both* pitchers in a game threw *26* innings, before the game was called for darkness. All of these cases are incorporated into today's episode, so while there is exaggeration, it's not by much.

Wrigley Field in Chicago, famously, held out by not having lights until relatively recently; most other baseball teams had converted either just before, or just after, World War II. Descending darkness could play a role in tight, light games, such as the famous "Homer in the Gloamin'" that helped decide the 1938 National League pennant, where an 0-2 pitch to Cubs catcher Gabby Hartnett ended up in the seats. Under the rules in those days, had he made an out, the entire game would have had to have been replayed.

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