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Podcast: Past Ball Podcast
Episode: The Wave| Pastball Podcast #12
Description: The Wave - is also referred to as the Mexican Wave is when a packed stadium and its group of fans successively stand, yell, and raise their arms and then immediately sit after reaching full height. The result is a wave of standing spectators that travels through the crowd, even though individual spectators never move away from their seats. The wave was created by "Krazy" George Henderson on October 15, 1981, at the televised A's/Yankees playoff game in Oakland. The Washington Huskies claim to have invented it some two weeks late but the video footage doesn’t lie. Henderson claims th...