The Pagan-Kazanski link

Before Angel Pagan hit an inside-the-park home run and started a triple play in the same game Wednesday night, Philadelphia's Ted Kazanski was the last player to do so 55 years ago.

When reached by phone Thursday morning, the 76-year-old Kazanski remembered the triple play he started that day far more than his inside-the-park home run.

That's because - get this - the triple play ended their season.

"One swing," he said, "Bam! The season's over."

All these years later the memory of that play is still fresh in the former shortstop's mind thanks to the incredible abruptness - not to mention oddity - of seeing a baseball season end on a triple play.

Newsday's Jim Baumbach caught up with Kazanski by telephone today. To read more about this story, click here.