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Co-Authors Jim Joyce, Armando Galarraga in Perfect Mess With Book Deal

The most enduring baseball story of 2010 might just be Jim Joyce's blown call that cost Armando Galarraga a perfect game and how the two men handled it. But now we must say this: Joyce should never again umpire one of Galarraga's games. Not because of the blown call, per se. But because Galarraga and Joyce are now...

Armando Galarraga, Jim Joyce Achieve Much More After Near-Perfect Game

All this week, the FanHouse staff will look back at the most significant baseball storylines of 2010. Armando Galarraga was better than perfect. With apologies to Dallas Braden and Roy Halladay and the 18 pitchers before them who had managed to pitch a perfect game in the major leagues, none of them emerged from his day...

Armando Galarraga, Jim Joyce: One Bad Call, the Class Act of 2010

Winning is fleeting, here one minute, gone the next. The path to legend is filled with even more pratfalls, some easily evident, some happenstance. Armando Galarraga learned all this pitching one June game for the Detroit Tigers this season. Galarraga saw a split-second call change what would have been an historic moment...

MLB Issues Gag Order to Jim Joyce

DETROIT (AP) -- Jim Joyce said he was willing to talk about his return to Comerica Park and reunion with Armando Galarraga. His bosses, though, wouldn't let him. "You know me -- I'd normally do it in a heartbeat," Joyce said about 90 minutes before Friday's game between Detroit and Baltimore. "But I got a call yesterday...

Jim Joyce to Umpire Home Plate for Armando Galarraga's Friday Start

Fans of heartwarming pregame scenes should probably tune into the Tigers' game against the Orioles on Friday night, which will see Armando Galarraga reunited with Jim Joyce at Comerica Park for the first time since the umpire's blown call cost the Detroit pitcher a perfect game. And not only will Joyce be part of the...