Submarine pitch: Remembering the first softball game at the North Pole
. Well, one bat is anyway, and it is not the bat that was in the office of, the first captain of the USS Seadragon and its commander during the historic 1960 voyage through the Northwest Passage.The nuclear submarine was built at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, and destined for service in the Pacific. The Navy decided to send it through the Northwest Passage, parts of which would be covered in ice.
“We were blessed with a clear blue sky overhead, warm sunlight, and little or no wind,” wrote a young Seadragon officer namedThe large ice floe comprising the field was as close as possible to the geographic North Pole. The mound was placed at the North Pole. The line from home plate to second base and into center field ran along the Greenwich Meridian.
Wrote McLaren, “Double and triple plays could take several days to complete.” And according to the brass plaque affixed to the bat in the Alabama den of Jim Steele, the crew beat the officers by a score of 13 to 10.How is it that Rickover also had a bat in his office? The answer can be found in an interview George Steele gave toSteele said that after completing the voyage, he was awakened by a call from Rickover. Steele was in Waikiki celebrating with his family. He was a little hungover.
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