Today would be the 115th birthday of Claude “Red” Grier, who threw baseball’s first World Series no-hitter in 1926.
On Sunday, October 3, 1926, in the Game 3 of 1926 Colored World Series between Grier’s Atlantic City Bacharach Giants and the opposing Chicago American Giants, Grier no-hit the American Giants for a 10-0 win in front of just 2,857 fans at Maryland Baseball Park in Baltimore.
Thirty years later, the New York Yankees’ Don Larsen threw the first Major League Baseball postseason no-hitter in the 1956 World Series, a perfect game against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
