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    No-Hitters

    By Bill Nowlin

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    About this ebook

    Pitching a no-hitter is a dream for every major-league pitcher. Fewer than half the pitchers in the National Baseball Hall of Fame have thrown a no-hitter. Many of the biggest names in pitching have never done it.

    This book focuses on pitchers who threw no-hitters and the no-hitters they threw. Naturally, we couldn’t present biographies of everyone who ever threw a no-hitter nor could we present Games Project accounts of all of them. From around 300 no-hitters thrown in the majors (out of over 213,000 games), we have selected 59 no-hitters to include, along with the biographies of the men who threw them.

    We wanted the book to touch on a variety of matters, and to span the decades so that there was some representation from the earlier eras of baseball right up to more recent years. We tried to hit certain themes — first no-hitter in each league; first no-hitter thrown at 60 feet 6 inches; first in which the losing team scored a run; first pitcher to debut with a no-hitter; first extra-inning no-hitter; etc. You’ll find those all in here and maybe a surprise or two as well.

    This book represents the collective work of 56 different SABR members as authors and editors.

    Introduction
    JOE BORDEN, Charlie Weatherby
    July 28, 1875, Casey Tibbitts

    GEORGE BRADLEY, Brian Engelhardt
    July 15, 1876 18, Parker Bena

    LEE RICHMOND
    June 12, 1880, John R. Husman

    LARRY CORCORAN, August 19, 1882
    Bob LeMoine

    TONY MULLANE, September 11, 1882
    Ray Birch

    GUY HECKER, September 19, 1882
    Bob Bailey

    SAM KIMBER, October 4, 1884
    David Nemec

    AL ATKINSON, May 1, 1886
    Chris Rainey

    AMOS RUSIE, Charles F. Faber
    July 31, 1891, Gregory H. Wolf

    THEODORE BREITENSTEIN, October 4, 1891
    Steve Rice

    BILL HAWKE, August 16, 1893
    Jimmy Keenan

    NIXEY CALLAHAN, September 20, 1902
    James E. Elfers

    EARL HAMILTON, August 30, 1912
    Paul Hofmann

    ED LAFITTE, September 19, 1914
    Jim Leeke

    FRED TONEY, May 2, 1917
    Mike Lynch

    CHARLIE ROBERTSON, April 30, 1922
    Jacob Pomrenke

    BOBBY BURKE, August 8, 1931
    Gregory H. Wolf

    BILL DIETRICH, June 1, 1937
    Gregory H. Wolf

    38. BOB FELLER, April 16, 1940
    C. Paul Rogers III

    ED HEAD, April 23, 1946
    Lyle Spatz

    WILLIAM McCAHAN, September 3, 1947
    David E. Skelton

    BOBO HOLLOMAN, Len Pasculli
    May 6, 1953, Joe Schuster

    DON LARSEN, October 8, 1956
    Charles F. Faber

    SANDY KOUFAX:
    June 30, 1962, Marc Z Aaron
    May 11, 1963, Marc Z Aaron
    June 4, 1964, Marc Z Aaron
    September 9, 1965, Mike Huber

    KEN JOHNSON, April 23, 1964
    Steve Schmitt

    BILL STONEMAN, Norm King
    April 17, 1969, Adam J. Ulrey
    October 2, 1972, Norm King

    STEVE BUSBY, April 27, 1973, June 19, 1974
    John DiFonzo

    BOB FORSCH, April 16, 1978, September 26, 1983
    Ben Girard

    KEN FORSCH, April 7, 1979
    Chip Greene

    LEN BARKER, May 15, 1981
    Joe Wancho

    DAVID PALMER, April 21, 1984 (second game)
    Norm King

    MIKE WITT, September 30, 1984
    Paul Hensler

    MIKE SCOTT, Rory Costello
    September 25, 1986, Frederick C. Bush

    TOM BROWNING, September 16, 1988
    Joe Cox

    ANDY HAWKINS, July 1, 1990
    Stew Thornley

    DAVE STIEB, Joe Cox
    September 2, 1990, Adrian Fung

    DENNIS MARTINEZ, July 28, 1991
    Rory Costello

    WILSON ALVAREZ, August 11, 1991
    Leonte Landino

    MATT YOUNG, April 12, 1992
    Alan Raylesburg

    KENNY ROGERS, July 28, 1994
    Tom Schott

    HIDEO NOMO, September 17, 1996, April 4, 2001
    Bill Staples

    DAVID WELLS, May 17, 1998
    Norm King

    DAVID CONE, July 18, 1999
    Tara Krieger

    DEREK LOWE, April 27, 2002
    Bill Nowlin

    RANDY JOHNSON, May 18, 2004
    Joe Wancho

    DALLAS BRADEN, May 9, 2010
    Dirk Lammers

    ROY HALLADAY, May 29, 2010, October 6, 2010
    Alan Cohen

    COMBINE

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSociety for American Baseball Research
    Release dateJun 20, 2017
    ISBN9781943816507
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    Bill Nowlin

    BILL NOWLIN confesses to have left Game Three of the 2004 ALCS before it was over - due to a 13-year-old son at home with a friend. But since the 1950s he has attended countless Red Sox games at a place he often calls his "second home." He waited 59 years to see the Sox win it all. He is one of the founders of Rounder Records; the one Hall of Fame into which he was inducted is the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame. He has written and edited many books, mostly on baseball and mostly for SABR, but has not gone far in life - he lives in Cambridge, maybe 10 miles from where he was born in Boston.

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