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Jim Joyce Still Haunted By Blown Perfect-Game Call
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“I think about it still, almost every day,” Joyce says. “I don’t want to be known as Jim Joyce, the guy that blew the perfect game. But I think that’s inevitable.”
Why?
“Because I’m Jim Joyce,” he says, “the umpire who blew the perfect game.”
From Amy K. Nelson’s wrenching new ESPN profile.
