A happy birthday to Lon Warneke, who threw a no-hitter for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1941.
Warneke, born 109 years ago today, no-hit the Cincinnati Reds 2-0 at Crosley Field on Saturday, August 30, 1941.
The AP in its report said Warneke was backed by a strong defense.
“They stopped almost everything, and some of the balls were tagged for greener pastures,” the wire story noted.
Author: Dirk Lammers
https://www.nonohitters.com/about-the-author/ Dirk Lammers is a veteran journalist who began rooting for the New York Mets in the early-1970s when the team’s no no-hitter count was barely 2,000 games old. Lammers has since turned his research into Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders: More Than a Century of Pitching’s Greatest Feats (Unbridled Books) and NoNoHitters.com, where he maintains the Internet's largest archive of no-hitter information.
A happy birthday to Lon Warneke, who threw a no-hitter for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1941.