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Sunday, May 8, 2016

Catfish Hunter Pitches Perfect Game


May 8, 1968. Jim "Catfish" Hunter of the Oakland A's tossed the first perfect game in the American League in forty-six years over the Minnesota Twins 4-0. Charlie Robertson of the Chicago White Sox had been the last to accomplish the feat in 1922. Only 6,298 witnessed the perfect game.




Joe Glasgow is a former senior staff writer at Fanstop.com, and is the author of the book Play Ball! Growing Up With Baseball https://amzn.to/2o4M62h

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