No-no birthdays for Boston pitchers Stivetts, Pfeffer
Birthday wishes today to a couple of Bostonians who threw their no-hitters more than a century ago. The Boston Beaneaters’ Jack Stivetts, born 147 years ago today, no-hit the Brooklyn Grooms 11-0 on Saturday, August 6, 1892 at Brooklyn’s Eastern Park. The Boston Doves’ Frank “Big Jeff” Pfeffer, born 133 years ago on this date,…