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In 2004, the Oakland Athletics began the Catfish Hunter Award. [43] His number 27 was retired by the Oakland Athletics in a pre-game ceremony on June 9, 1991, the first in the franchise's 90-year history. [42] [44] The Jim "Catfish" Hunter Memorial is located in Hertford. [45] An annual softball event is held in Hertford in memory of Hunter.
On May 8, 1968, Jim "Catfish" Hunter of the Oakland Athletics pitched the ninth perfect game in Major League Baseball history, defeating the Minnesota Twins 4–0 at Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum. The game was not televised. Hunter struck out 11 batters, including the last two batters he faced: Bruce Look and pinch-hitter Rich Reese.
Pagliaroni won the Athletics' starting catchers job at the beginning of the 1968 season and caught Catfish Hunter's perfect game on May 8 of that year, the first perfect game in the American League since 1922. [27] Hunter only disagreed with Pagliaroni's pitch-calling decisions twice during the game. [28]
The Athletics drew national attention when, on May 8, 1968, Jim "Catfish" Hunter pitched a perfect game (the American League's first during the regular season since 1922) against the Minnesota Twins. The Athletics, under the leadership of manager Bob Kennedy , ended the 1968 campaign with an 82–80 record, their first winning record since 1952 ...
The team's young core of Jim "Catfish" Hunter, Joe Rudi, Bert Campaneris, Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando, Gene Tenace, and Rick Monday began to gel; all of these young players (with the exception of Monday, who would be traded in 1971 for pitcher Ken Holtzman) would power the Athletics' forthcoming 1970's dynasty.
Catfish Hunter * ¶ 4 –0 0 Minnesota Twins: Jim Pagliaroni: Jerry Neudecker: Bob Kennedy: First perfect game in Athletics history and 9th in MLB history; first perfect game in American League history since 1922; Hunter batted in three of Oakland’s four runs; First no-hitter as Oakland Athletic; See also: Catfish Hunter's perfect game [13] 7 ...
The 1973 A's had three 20-game winners in Jim (Catfish) Hunter, Ken Holtzman and Vida Blue. [10] The A's were on the receiving end of some milestones as well. On July 3, Nolan Ryan struck out Sal Bando of the Athletics for the 1000th strikeout in his career. [11]
Jim "Catfish" Hunter's number 27 was retired by the Athletics in a pre-game ceremony on June 9, the first in the franchise's 90 years. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown in 1987, the right-handed starter won 161 regular season games in ten seasons for the A's, the first three in Kansas City and the ...