“Cannonball” Dick Redding threw one of the earliest documented Negro Leagues no-hitters, 104 years ago today.
Pitching for the Lincoln Giants on Wednesday, August 28, 1912, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Redding no-hit the Cuban Stars for a 1-0 win.
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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