Synopsis "Baseball's No-Hit Wonders: More Than a Century of Pitching's Greatest Feats"
Baseballs No-Hit Wonders honors legendary pitchers Cy Young, Bob Feller, Nolan Ryan, and Sandy Koufax while introducing readers to the eccentrics and one-shot wonders. The book, the first of its kind in fifteen years, fleshes out the colorful characters, compelling narratives, ,and statistical oddities from baseballs 287 no-hit effortsas well as the many near-misses that are also part of the national pastimes storied history.There is detail and great research, but also a fun, breezy take on the game, from the no-hitter thrown by a pitcher on acid, the worst hitters most known for breaking up no-hitters, and guys with nicknames such as Bo, Bumpus, Bobo, Cannonball, and Nixey. Even the games greatest slugger is credited with a partial no-hitter, and all he did was throw a punch.Chapters on the best no-hitters of all time are interspersed with "Did You Know?" lists of no-hitters by days of the week, by team, by city, and more, as well as lists of the best no-hitters of the Negro Leagues, catchers who caught the most no-hitters, and the best pitchers NOT to throw a no-hitter.The book will be updated right up to publication, and any no-hitter after the book goes to press will be covered in the authors much-followed blog, NoNoHitters.com.
