[wolterse]

I recently read about the Brooklyn atlantics defeat of the Cincinnati red stockings on June 14,1870, snapping the red stockings 80 game winning streak in extra innings. The game had six lead changes and has to be one of the best games of the pre-war era..especially when you consider most of the previous 80 victories for the red stockings had been blowouts.

Another one that comes to mind is the 20-inning game between rube Waddell and cy young on July 4, 1905. Both future HOFs pitched all 20 innings with the athletics finally getting to young in the top of the 20th. "For my part, I think it was the greatest game of ball I ever took part in,” Young wrote a week later.

Other opinions?