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by Jeff Hardie

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Legends Steal Win from Stogies in Inagural Legends of Baseball Vintage Showdown

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Top (L-R): Vince Coleman, Ron Robinson, Steve Finley, Gaylord Perry, John "Blue Moon" Odom, Rollie Fingers, Vida Blue, Darrell Evans, Brady Anderson, Kevin Maas, Durdam Rocherolle Bottom (L-R): Bill "Spaceman" Lee, Bert "Campy" Campaneris, Honorary Manager Lee "Taxi" Browner, Dennis Burtt, Jeff Kent, Scott Lonergan

In vintage baseball game, big talent trumps small gloves

The pinstripes on their uniforms bent in the middle a little more than they had 30 or 40 years ago, when they were the most terrifying pitchers on the Bay Area's two major league baseball teams. Before Saturday's inaugural Legends of Baseball Vintage Showdown at Municipal Stadium in San Jose, Vida Blue, Gaylord Perry and Rollie Fingers sat Buddha-like in the dugout. Two MVP and four Cy Young Awards just sitting around talking 19th century baseball.

Fingers seemed pleased when he learned the vintage game's rules just before the contest, particularly the one that made throwing at batters legal. "I needed that rule when I was in the big leagues," he said. "I'd hit 'em twice."

With Fingers simultaneously picking up the save and managing to avoid the elder-groin injury he was dreading, the Legends won 16-15. That's the way things were always done in the Old West, if you believe "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." When the Legends become fact, go with the Legends.

Photos courtesy Angela J. Hill

Thank you to all who helped make The Inagural Legends of Baseball Vintage Showdown a truly spectacular event.