Had the great privilege of appearing on Mark Simon’s terrific Sports Info Solutions Baseball Podcast today to chat about no-hitters and the role of defense, umpires and other things. Take a listen at the link below.
NoNoHitters.com is giving away two copies of Dirk Lammers’ Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders: More Than a Century of Pitching’s Greatest Feats through Amazon to celebrate the start of the 2019 season.
Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders features a foreword by former MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent and honors such the legendary pitchers and one-shot wonders who have thrown no-nos.
The Detroit Tigers traded right-hander Virgil Trucks after he threw no-hitters in a season, 66 years ago today.
Gary Thorne, MASN’s play-by-play announcer for the Baltimore Orioles, just posted an amazing review of “Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders” on his Hitting the Books blog. I’m extremely humbled and honored by the review and so thankful he enjoyed it and appreciated the research. The text version of the review can be found on his blog at…
Thanks to Fran Charles, Mark DeRosa, Lauren Shehadi and Preston Wilson for having me on MLB Central this morning. It was a heck of a lot of fun and I feel it went went incredibly smoothly, except maybe the point when both Mark DeRosa and a producer speaking in my earpiece reminded me that Carlos…