Phillies Fan Documenting 1964 Season Collapse On Twitter
By Paul Kurtz
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) --- Fifty years ago today, the first place Phillies got lost on their way to the World Series. It was a ten-game losing streak for the ages. One fan has spent this baseball season tweeting about that one.
Philly native Pat Yeardly has dug into a massive trove of information he'd collected for a long-abandoned book project about that star-crossed Phillies squad and transferred it to Twitter.
We're talking interviews, newspaper clippings, and photos. He's been tweeting every day about 1964 since April of 2014, chronicling the high hopes of spring training, the giddy days of summer in first place and then, the crash. For the streak he'll be tweeting in real time.
"Say for example a Sunday game started at 8:05 back in '64. so the first tweet will go out at roughly 8:05, and then I'll do summaries by inning and then I'll send out the last tweet of the game and then after that I'll do the post game synopsis," Yeardly said.
All you gluttons for punishment can find it all on Twitter - the handle is @epic64collapse.