... the great Jim "Catfish" Hunter spun a perfect game for the Oakland A's, topping the powerful (Carew/Killebrew/Oliva) Minnesota Twins, 4-0.
So, it's story time here at Batter's Box. Have you ever seen a perfect game? Or even a no-hitter? That means, live -- not "Oh, yeah, I saw Lenny Barker's perfecto on TV" (which I did, but that don't count here!) ...
No-hitters have always fascinated me. So tell your story of seeing one, or sometimes just as interesting, almost seeing one (Dave Stieb fans out there?) ... My own painful story of almost seeing one is a bit different ...
... I've told this story here before, but my then-fiancee and I had plans to go see the Reds and Dodgers play in Cincinnati on Sept. 16, 1988, but opted at the last minute to go see the game on the 17th instead. So the night we would have been there, I learned the next morning, my favorite player, lefty Tom Browning, was merely perfect against the eventual World Champs. I read it in the paper at breakfast as my presumptive future mother-in-law said "Good morning!" and I responded with an unthinking string of expletives as I opened the sports pages.
Ah, memories ...
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