A happy 63rd birthday to Dave Stewart, who threw a no-hitter for the Oakland Athletics on June 29, 1990.
Later that evening, Fernando Valenzuela threw a no-hitter for the Los Angeles Dodgers, marking just the second time over baseball’s history that two no-nos have been thrown on the same day.
The A’s are recognizing Stewart by retiring his number 34, although the number was already taken out of the rotation in honor of Hall of Fame closer Rollie Fingers.
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.
