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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.
As defined by Major League Baseball, "in a perfect game, no batter reaches any base during the course of the game." [ 3 ] These feats were achieved by Catfish Hunter in 1968, which was the first perfect game in American League history since 1922, and Dallas Braden in 2010, [ 5 ] which was the second perfect game in the majors – both against ...
James Augustus "Catfish" Hunter (April 8, 1946 – September 9, 1999) was an American professional baseball player in Major League Baseball (MLB). From 1965 to 1979, he was a pitcher for the Kansas City / Oakland Athletics and New York Yankees. Hunter is the only pitcher since 1915 to win 200 games by age 31.
What happens to catfish on ice at Nashville Predators games? Members of the ice crew gather the carcasses, put them in a gold bucket and deliver them immediately into a trash compactor at the arena.
The tradition lived on Friday at Game 3 of the Predators' first-round NHL playoff game against the Vancouver Canucks at Bridgestone Arena when at least four dead catfish were thrown on to the ice ...
Video of Canadian-born country artist Alli Walker drinking a beer out of a catfish during Game 4 of the Predators vs. Canucks NHL playoff series has gone viral on social media.
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
Game 4 was the most exciting of the series; for eight innings, it was a tight pitching duel between Game 1 aces Catfish Hunter and Mickey Lolich. The only runs across were a Dick McAuliffe homer for the Tigers in the third and a Mike Epstein homer for the A's -- Oakland's only home run in the series -- in the seventh.