On May 5, 1904 he pitched the first perfect game in American League history; give that man an award!
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List of Major League Baseball perfect games - Wikipedia  Over the 140 years of Major League Baseball history, and over 210,000 games played, there have been 23 official perfect games by the current definition. No pitcher has ever thrown more than one. The perfect game thrown by Don Larsen in game 5 of the 1956 World Series ... The first two major league perfect games, and the only two of the premodern...
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Cy Young - Wikipedia  Denton True "Cy" Young (March 29, 1867  November 4, 1955) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. During his 22-season baseball career (18901911), he pitched for five .... He's not worth it now, but I'm willing to give you $1,000 ($26,381 today) for .... It was the first perfect game in American League history.
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Cy Young | Society for American Baseball Research  In 1901, his first season with the Americans, he led the league in victories, strikeouts ... The many photos of Young that survive from this period portray a man .... May 5, 1904, when at the age of 37 he pitched the first perfect game in American ... my pitching on purpose, he snarled, come around and I'll give you a brand new...
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Red Sox History: Cy Young's 1904 perfect game - Over the Monster  Apr 8, 2016 ... On May 10th, 1904, the first perfect game in Major League history was thrown. ... Ward, who accomplished their feats within five days of one another. ... As it were, Waddell proceeded to give up at least one hit to every Boston batter ... career games he started, and has the most prestigious pitching award in...
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May 5, 1904: Cy Young pitches a perfect game | Society for ...  May 5, 1904: Cy Young pitches a perfect game. This article was written by Jerrod Cotosman. Old Cy Young was on the verge of history as he stood on the mound and ... They had been drawn to a matchup between the American League's two ... Through eight full innings not one of the visiting Athletics had reached first base.
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GORDON WHITE: TV Baseball Celebrates 70 Years | Sports ...  May 17, 2009 ... That initial baseball telecast, which was also the first sports telecast in the ... It was played, May 17, 1939, at Columbia's Baker Field situated high above the ... But it was primarily shown for promotional purposes in the RCA ... event, there was a tie so that the first televised baseball game lasted 10 innings.
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Jackie Robinson breaks major league color barrier - Apr 15, 1947 ...  On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American in the major leagues when he plays his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers. ... After leaving the military, Robinson played shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs in the ... The next year he became the Dodgers' highest paid player, earning a salary of...
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Archive: Rangers' Nolan Ryan earns 5000th career strikeout  Jan 31, 2012 ... Texas Rangers relief pitcher Jake Diekman throws a pitch against .... Archive: Rangers' Nolan Ryan earns 5,000th career strikeout ... At 8:51 p.m., on his 73rd pitch of the game, Ryan became the first pitcher in history to strike out 5, 000 batters. ... Although the A's tried to play down their part and point to their...
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April 2013 - SweetSpot Blog - ESPN  Before becoming a closer: Groomed as a closer since Oakland made him the 40th .... Now 32, he's pitched for the Yankees, Indians, Marlins, Pirates and Brewers and ..... 8%. Yu Darvish, Rangers: 2-0, near perfect game. 23%. Chris Davis, Orioles: .... The Giants have scored just 12 runs in their first five games, so Cain may...
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Love of the Game: RN and Baseball - Richard Nixon Presidential ...  Apr 23, 2014 ... While arbitrating the 1985 Umpire labor dispute, President Nixon recorded ... I saw my first Major League Baseball game about 50 years ago when I ... As former baseball commissioner Happy Chandler observed in a recent...
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J! Archive - Show #3473, aired 1999-10-13  The first U.S. tennis player to win $100,000 in a year, in 1975 he became the first black man to win at Wimbledon ... In 1956 this N.Y. Yankee became the only player ever to win baseball's Triple Crown while hitting more than 50 home runs...
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Ichiro Suzuki - Wikipedia  He led the American League (AL) in batting average and stolen bases en route to being named AL Rookie of the Year and AL MVP. Ichiro is the first MLB player...
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More Than That One Pitch - latimes  Jul 24, 2004 ... Eckersley, who gave up Gibson's '88 homer, makes Hall as the ... room, flicked a slider into the bleachers and slew the mighty Oakland Athletics. ... In 1977, he threw a no-hitter, against the Angels, for the Cleveland Indians. ... He won 149 games as a starter, pitching 100 complete games and 20 shutouts.
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Opening Day, April 18, 1923: The first-ever game at the old Yankee ...  Also fitting: Babe Ruth hits The Stadium's first home run, and the Bombers win, 4-2. Yankees-Red Sox: The Rivalry APRIL 18, 1923: The first-ever game at the...
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J! Archive - Show #4122, aired 2002-07-02  Game 5 of the 2001 World Series was the first Major League game to be .... In 1955 he got an offer he couldn't refuse: the publication of his first novel, "The Dark...
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Bunning, Jim | Baseball Hall of Fame  Jim Bunning was a tough right-handed sidearm pitcher during his 17-year big league ... perfect game in major league history and the first no-hitter by a Phillies pitcher in more ... that Jim Bunning's perfect game of 1964 was the first such gem pitched in the National League since 1880? ... Birth place: Southgate, Kentucky.
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Albert Belle - Wikipedia  Career highlights and awards. 5 All-Star (19931997); 5 Silver Slugger Award (19931996, 1998); AL home run leader (1995); 3 AL RBI leader (1993, 1995, 1996). Albert Jojuan Belle (born August 25, 1966) is a former American Major League Baseball outfielder for the Cleveland Indians, ... In 1995, he became the first player in major league history to hit 50 home...
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Historic Quest In trying to become the first hitter since Ted Williams ...  baseball is the computation that goes on after every at bat by. Helton, the lefthanded-hitting Colorado Rockies first baseman. He's trying to ... (.390 in 1980). The San Diego ... manager Buddy Bell, Brett's third-base contemporary during his playing days. .... Pittsburgh, he had dismissed talk of hitting .400 as "too early."
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Top 99 Trivia Answers - Baseball Roundtable  9 homers in a 22-3 win over the Phillies September 4, 1999. 12. ... Juan Marichal was the starting pitcher in Major League Baseball's only .... on to an 8-season Major League baseball career (1958-67) for the Indians, Red Sox, Colt .45s and Twins. .... In 1968, an NL hurler tossed a still record six consecutive complete game...
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 --  Topix  $500 ~ On May 5, 1904 he became the 1st Major League player of the modern era to pitch a perfect ... In 1953 this Memphis truck driver recorded a few songs as a birthday gift for his mother; the rest is history ... The first of these structures in the U.S. was built in Chicago in 1930 with a gift from Max Adler.
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Don Larsen - Wikipedia  The perfect game. Larsen's most notable accomplishment was pitching the only perfect game in the history of the World Series; it is one of only 23 perfect games in MLB history. He was pitching for the New York Yankees in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers on October 8, 1956.