Two pitching greats — Bob Lemon and Robin Roberts — were voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame 40 years ago today,
Lemon got his no-hitter while pitching for the Cleveland Indians on June 30, 1948, against the Tigers in Detroit.
Roberts never threw a no-hitter despite leading the National League in victories for four straight seasons from 1952 to 1955.
(Feature images courtesy of the Ernie Harwell Sports Collection, Detroit Public Library)
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.
