The Chicago American Giants’ Tom Johnson threw a Negro Leagues no-hitter, 97 years ago today. On Tuesday, June 17, 1919, Johnson no-hit the Detroit Stars for a 7-3 victory.
View the full list of Negro Leagues no-nos here.
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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.
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