Baseball no-hitters at NoNoHitters.com

The Padres have played 7,888 regular-season games without a no-hitter.

Jun182018

Dodgers’ Kershaw no-hits Rockies, 4 years ago today.

The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw threw a no-hitter against the Colorado Rockies four years ago today.

Jun172018

Chicago American Giants’ Johnson tosses no-no, 99 years ago today

The Chicago American Giants’ Tom Johnson threw a Negro Leagues no-hitter, 99 years ago today.

Jun172018

Jackson flirts with no-no in first start for Padres, 2 years ago today

Edwin Jackson nearly made San Diego Padres history in his first start for the club, two years ago today.

Jun162018

Colby Lewis loses perfecto in 8th, no-no in 9th, 2 years ago today

The Texas Rangers’ Colby Lewis lost a perfect game in the eighth inning and a no-hitter into the ninth, two years ago today.

Jun152018

Reds’ Vander Meer tosses back-to-back no-nos, 80 years ago today

Johnny Vander Meer became the first pitcher to throw no-hitters in back-to-back starts, 80 years ago today.

Jun142018

Reds’ Maloney tosses 10 innings of no-hit ball and loses, 53 years ago today.

The Cincinnati Reds’ Jim Maloney tossed 10 innings of no-hit ball before losing his effort in the 11th, 53 years ago today.

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Why the name NoNoHitters.com?

Although NoNoHitters.com over the past decade has blossomed into baseball’s online home for all things no-hitter, its origins are rooted in a 50-plus-year drought of no-hitters by the New York Mets.

For four-and-a-half seasons (2008-2012), NoNoHitters.com site dutifully logged the climbing count of Mets games without a no-hitter, which finally ended at 8,019 on June 1, 2012, when Johan Santana made history. During our tenure chronicling baseball’s longest no-no drought from inception, we watched two of baseball’s newer franchises – the Colorado Rockies and the Tampa Bay Rays pass us on the baselines and exit the no-no club out of turn. But one team, the circa-1969 San Diego Padres, continues to serve as its sole member.

Dirk Lammers is a veteran journalist and author who created NoNoHitters.com in 2008. Read more here.

“… delightfully written … story after fascinating story about the most compelling characters and unlikely events.”

Matt Sutherland
Foreword Reviews ★★★★★

“… an exuberant romp through the history of one of baseball’s most impressive achievements.”

Paul Hagen
MLB.com

“It’s fantastic. My kinda baseball book. Just the right combo of pure stats, information, obscure history and incisive commentary. I know I’ll be going back to it often for reference (and, hey, maybe a song or 2!).”

Steve Wynn
Musician, The Baseball Project, The Dream Syndicate

“This volume is the complete – and I mean fully complete – story of the no-hit games in the long history of Major league Baseball, and it will serve as the place to look if one wonders why baseball makes such a big deal of no-hit games. With prodigious research, Lammers has produced not just the bare bones of each no-hit game but adds to each game story the little and telling details that are so alluring.”

Fay Vincent
Former MLB commissioner, foreword writer

“I loved reading about all of the no-hitters. There are a lot of things that I had no idea about, like “Hooks” Wiltse also losing his perfect game in the ninth inning but saving his no-hitter. Even if you do not know anything about baseball, this is a great book about the great history of the game.”

Milt Pappas
MLB pitcher 1957-1973 ('72 no-no)

“Never have so many no-nos inspired such resounding yes-yeses! A baseball research book with a sense of humor—novel concept.”

Mike Veeck
Minor-league baseball owner, promoter behind the Chicago White Sox’s Disco Demolition Night

“I do think you have a winning idea. This is a book that should sell. Bo Belinsky was my favorite, followed by Don Larsen, and the only one I saw in person, Bob Forsch.”

W.P. Kinsella
Author of Shoeless Joe, adapted into "Field of Dreams"

“In “Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders,” Lammers takes a topic that might seem narrowly focused and opens it up with all sorts of interesting angles.”

Ross Atkins
Christian Science Monitor

“… a fascinating book that will appeal to both the historian and the die-hard fan.”

Jeff Ayers
The Associated Press

“As an official scorer, I’m aware of the tension and drama when a pitcher takes a no-hitter into the later innings. In Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders, Dirk Lammers has captured this drama and added to it with insights and analysis for those who achieved this honor. Mixed in with fun facts about more than 100 years of no-hitters, Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders is entertaining and enlightening.”

Stew Thornley
MLB Official Scorer for Minnesota Twins games

“Like the book’s subject, Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders is full of intrigue, suspense and just enough random good fortune to go down in history. In revisiting the unforgettable and revealing the forgotten, Dirk Lammers deals a quirky treasure for baseball lovers.”

Jon Springer
Author of Mets by the Numbers