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The Perfect Game: A Classic Collection of Facts, Figures, Stories and Characters from the Society for American Baseball Research (Taylor). ISBN 0-87833-815-2; Anderson, David W. (2000). More Than Merkle: A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press). ISBN 0-8032-1056-6
The Women's Pro Baseball League (WPBL) is a planned professional women's baseball league in the United States, being developed by co-founders Justine Siegal and Kieth Stein. . The league is planned to commence play in 2026, with six teams in the northeastern United States competi
As of 2024, the Major League Baseball definition of a perfect game is largely a side effect of the decision made by the major leagues' Committee for Statistical Accuracy on September 4, 1991, to redefine a no-hitter as a game in which the pitcher or pitchers on one team throw a complete game of nine innings or more without surrendering a hit. [15]
Galarraga's near-perfect game was the first such game since Mike Mussina's bid for a perfect game on September 2, 2001, which was broken up by 27th batter Carl Everett. [12] It was also the third time for a Tigers pitcher to come so close to a perfect game, as Tommy Bridges missed retiring the 27th batter on August 5, 1932 [ 13 ] and Milt ...
A one-on-one single-elimination tournament mid-season is scheduled to take place from February 10–14, 2025, with the winner earning a $200,000 paycheck. [26] [a] In January 2025, Sprite was named the presenting partner of 2025 1 on 1 tournament. [28] The runner-up of the tournament will earn $50,000 and the remaining two semi-finalists ...
[2] These feats were achieved by Charlie Robertson in 1922, which was the first perfect game on the road in MLB history, Mark Buehrle in 2009, [4] and Philip Humber in 2012. Nixey Callahan threw the first no-hitter in White Sox history on September 20, 1902; the most recent no-hitter was thrown by Carlos Rodón on April 14, 2021. [ 4 ]
PONY Baseball and Softball is a non-profit organization with headquarters in Washington, Pennsylvania.Started in 1951, [2] PONY organizes youth baseball and softball leagues and tournaments, as over 500,000 players annually play PONY in over 4,000 leagues throughout the United States and over 40 countries world-wide.
The perfect game is, as of 2022, the most recent no-hitter in Ranger history. Rogers said he did not think about the perfect game until the ninth inning—and the bid was almost broken up one batter in. Rookie center fielder Rusty Greer preserved the bid by making a diving catch of Rex Hudler 's sinking line drive to right-center leading off ...