Season opens on Cy Young’s birthday
Perhaps 2018 will be another year of the pitcher, as Major League Baseball is opening its season on Cy Young’s birthday.
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).
Happy birthday to Cardinals no-no thrower Lon Warneke
Happy birthday to Lon Warneke, who threw a no-hitter for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1941.
Pirates no-hit Dodgers in Grapefruit League game, 52 years ago today.
A pair of Pittsburgh Pirates pitchers combined to no-hit the Los Angeles Dodgers in a Grapefruit League matchup, 52 years ago today.
Happy birthday to Brewers no-no thrower Ed Cushman
Happy 166th birthday to Ed Cushman, who threw a no-hitter for the Milwaukee Brewers of the Union Association on September 28, 1884.
Happy birthday no-no thrower Mike Warren
Happy 57th birthday to former Oakland Athletics pitcher Mike Warren, who tossed a no-hitter against the Chicago White Sox at Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum on September 29, 1983.
McKeon and Geggus, once credited with no-hitters, born on this date
Larry McKeon and Charlie Geggus, the earliest no-hitter throwers to have their games tossed off the official list, were both born on this date.