We continue our NoNoHitters 30 countdown today with the team that took more than a half century to finally get one, the New York Mets. The 8,019-game streak began on April 11, 1962, when the St. Louis Cardinals’ Julian Javier singled to left off Mets starter Roger Craig during the Mets franchise’s first major league…
To celebrate the 30 days leading up to Opening Day 2015, NoNoHitters.com is highlighting each team’s no-no accomplishments in reverse order from the San Diego Padres (0) to the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers (25) We start with the San Diego Padres, the only major league team void of a no-hitter. A San Diego Padres pitcher has…
John Montgomery Ward, who threw the majors’ second perfect game in 1880, was born 155 years ago today. Ward threw his perfecto for the National League’s Providence Grays on June 17, 1880, shutting out the Buffalo Bisons 5-0 at the Messer Street Grounds in Providence. Beating him to the punch five days earlier was Lee…
Two Lehigh University pitchers combined to throw an 11-inning no-hitter Saturday as the Mountain Hawks topped the Iona Gaels 2-0 during the first game of a doubleheader played in Summerville, South Carolina. (Read the full story here.) Lehigh senior Nick Macaione threw nine innings of no-hit ball, yielding just one walk. Junior Kevin Boswick took…
Long before “Field of Dreams,” “Bull Durham” and “Major League” hit the silver screen, Leonard Nimoy played an uncredited part of a ballplayer in a film about a once feral cat owning a major league club. Nimoy, best known for portraying “Mr. Spock” on “Star Trek,” died today at the age of 83. In the…
There have been six Subway Series no-nos over New York’s baseball history, with the Brooklyn Dodgers no-hitting the New York Giants three times, the Giants topping Brooklyn twice and the New York Yankees’ Don Larsen throwing a perfect game against the Dodgers in the 1956 World Series. And then there’s the "Cookie Game" in Game…