nonotriviaHall of Famer Sandy Koufax threw his fourth no-hitter in the form of a perfect game, 50 years ago today.

Koufax on September 9, 1965, retired each of the 27 Chicago Cubs batters he faced at Dodger Stadium to set a new record for career no-hitters. Nolan Ryan would eventually break the mark of 4 and extend his record to 7.

But Koufax’s perfecto had such an impact on the Cubs that the team avoided being no-hit for nearly 50 years, with the streak ending this year at the hands of Cole Hamels.

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Author: Dirk Lammers

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.

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