NoNoHitters.com was created by veteran journalist Dirk Lammers, a New Jersey native 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.
He has since turned his research into Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders: More Than a Century of Pitching’s Greatest Feats, which was published by Unbridled Books in March 2016.
Lammers, who has spent his career writing for The Associated Press and The Tampa Tribune, decided to tap his love of baseball in 2008 to create NoNoHitters.com and begin tracking the team’s quest for its first no-hitter. For 4 1/2 years, Lammers dutifully added to the growing game count after each contest’s inevitable first hit, tweeting out the new number and the hitter responsible. That all changed on June 1, 2012, when southpaw Johan Santana finally accomplished the feat for the Mets after 8,019 regular season games. (See news coverage of the site here.)
NoNoHitters.com has since evolved into the online gathering point for all things related to no-hitters, and the site also tracks the San Diego Padres’ quest for that team’s first no-no (the circa-1969 franchise is the only one left awaiting a no-no celebration). Lammers is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
I saw your book on netgalley and was very impressed with it!! I already requested it and hope you allow me to review it! I’m a huge Baseball Fan and this book is so exciting to me
Thanks so much, Sandi! From what I understand from my publisher, it should be available on NetGalley soon. Glad you’re looking forward to it and I’d love to hear what you think.
Dirk
Is there a book signing with the author this week in Tampa? I’d like to attend.
Hi. There is one Wednesday, March 16 at Love’s Artifacts Bar and Grill,4918 S MacDill Ave, starting at 5:30 p.m.
I wanted to mail something to you (the old-fashioned way!)… what address should I use? I enjoyed your book immensely!
Thanks, Tim. Just emailed you.
Saw you on MLB Network. Might you be interested in coming to Cape Cod to do a lecture and book signing? Contact me to discuss further.