As we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, it’s time to honor the only no-hit pitcher actually born in Ireland – Hugh Daily. Daily, throwing for the National League’s Cleveland Blues, no-hit the Philadelphia Quakers on Sept. 13, 1883 at Recreation park in Philadelphia. Daily, who had one arm due to a gun accident years earlier, was…
The No. 19 spot on our NoNoHitters 30 countdown belongs to the Texas Rangers, a team that began as an expansion club in 1961 as the second incarnation of the Washington Senators. The franchise has five no-hitters in its history – and all came after the club moved to Arlington, Texas in 1972. The new…
As teams adopt foreign color palettes for a day to fit in with the Americanized Irish tradition of St. Patrick’s Day, let’s give credit to the team that made a more permanent jump into green in 1963 – the Kansas City Athletics. Long before ball clubs donned single-game green-tinged versions of their jerseys for annual…