re: One of the more underrated parts of the radio call of Morris' HR

Does anyone know who caught the home run ball and where it is now??

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Justin bowles grounded to 1st to get wilson to 3rd before lanier struck out, i have a problem lol

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Well, if that's the case then I also have a problem. They say the first part of recovery is admitting you have a problem. Unfortunately, I think I am going to carry this one for life.

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I have a friend who thinks this is the funniest line in all of sports history.

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Suzyn Waldman. Roger Clemens. Steinbrenner's box.

knocked my head on the top bunk in my barracks room in okinawa at like 5am. roommate was pissed. no fricks given!

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he called it a three run homer

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Dude…wtf? I have been hearing people say this for 27 years and it’s wrong. The audio isn’t great but (to my ear) he clearly says “a two-run home run.”

The lead up to the HR before it happened is way too often excluded.

Hawthorne, while doing his professional reading of Morris' ABs so far says something to the effect, "Well, now it's going to take a base hit."

It was completely on point with the moment. And, he does it while keeping the flow of the radio broadcast, expressing his disappointment with the change of situation from being able to tie it in a number of ways to having to actually get a hit. He gets all of that in before the first pitch...

Hawthorne was great.

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I always thought it was the foreshadowing just before the pitch. After he gave Morris' game stats and everything, he says, paraphrasing, "well, it's going to take a base hit, error, pass ball, or something.........."whack", that's way back there, way back there

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Damn, you beat me to it. 100% agree.

What a moment. My now wife and I were together in her apartment. We had been going out for 6 months and she was sick with bronchitis, so I was taking care of her that weekend. She spent all her energy keeping up with the game down the stretch and pretty much passed out right after screaming at the end.

I just remember running out of her apartment door at Sharlo right after and it was like BR spontaneously combusted. I didn’t know her neighbors at all, but we were all yelling and high fiving. Horns were honking up and down the street. People were running around screaming in the parking lot. Someone started blasting Pregame from their car. I’ve never seen a spontaneous reaction like that outside of a game or a sports bar.

As for Hawthorne, he could definitely be a goober (Jack Hunt!), but he was our goober. And he did nail this particular call pretty well.

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Who scored the tying run from third in that game?

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Funny story about Brad Wilson. My mom and I have been huge baseball fans since 1991. We didn't miss a home game. I can remember her checking me out of school during regionals. I remember everything about that game very well. So fast forward to the mid 2000s...he happened to come into where I was working. I started talking to him about the 96 CWS and how he got things started with the double and scored the tying run. He was blown away that some 20 year old chick knew who he was. He asked if I googled his name before he walked in.

I always laugh at the Jack Hunt call. What’s funny is that LSU edited that call for Jim to say, “It was Devery Henderson who caught the ball.”