Baseball’s first no-hitter, 140 years ago today
The father of no-hitters, George Washington Bradley, threw baseball’s first no-no, 140 years ago today. On Saturday, July 15, 1876, the 5-foot-10½-inch, lanky St. Louis Brown Stockings right-hander worked his way down the Hartford Dark Blues lineup during a one-hour-50-minute contest, striking out three batters while walking one. The Brown Stockings’ defense was of little…