The fastball from Atlanta righty Pat Jarvis rode up and in on 39-year-old Ernie Banks, who’d been having a lot of trouble catching up to such pitches of late.
Not this one, though. Not the one on May 12, 1970, in the second inning on a wet day at Wrigley Field. Banks turned on it, and the ball screamed off his bat — a liner yanked into the first row of the bleachers.
“That’s a fly ball, deep to left, back, back — that’s it! That’s it! Hey, hey!” came Jack Brickhouse’s call on Ch. 9. “He did it!