Randy Johnsons Infamous Bird Pitch Is Getting A Quirky Baseball Hall of Fame Tribute [Video]

Cooperstown. Hallowed ground for baseball’s immortals. It’s where legends are frozen in time, where stories are etched into plaques, and where Randy Johnson, The Big Unit, looms large. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2015, he’s remembered for the heat on his fastball, that towering 6’10” frame, and a career spanning 22 dominant years.

But every ’90s kid and baseball fan knows that moment—the one that still comes up the second you mention his name.

“I call that moment the pitch,” Randy says with a knowing smile.

“Oh, we all know the pitch,” I respond, both of us laughing on a Zoom call this morning.

It was a meme before memes. A viral moment before anyone was calling things viral. Ask anyone on the street, and they might not mention his five Cy Young Awards or the World Series MVP. Nope—they’ll likely bring up that bizarre 2001 moment at an Arizona Diamondbacks spring training game when a fastball …