By David Mendonca —       The single greatest game ever thrown by a major league pitcher ended in defeat for that pitcher.  It was not thrown by Sandy Koufax, Walter Johnson, Greg Maddux or any other of the game's greatest pitchers.  Nor was it thrown by some obscure journeyman like Don Larsen.  Harvey Haddix, you see, was a good, but not great pitcher in his day, even if time has faded him from the memory of most baseball fans today.      But on May 26, 1959, the man his teammates affectionately called "Kitten" took the mound against the hard-hitting Milwaukee Braves, a team that...Read More