Don't They Know He's Called the Bulldog?
"I'll give you a signal," he said to the film crew, tugging on his ear and brushing his shoulder like a third-base coach. A few hands later the player in the cutoff raised to 850 and Hershiser looked over to the camera crew and tugged on his ear. He moved all in as the cameras came over. When the cutoff called and showed to Orel's , it looked like the Bulldog's Main Event was about to end.
But just as the New York Mets and Oakland A's learned in in 1988, never underestimate the Bulldog. The flop came to give Hershiser top pair, and when the board ran out he doubled up to 5,350. And once again, the cameras were forced to retreat, to wait for what could be a very long time.