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Rarest and most satisfying achievement for a pitcher is a no-hit game, of which there have been 115 in major-league history. Last week in Chicago, spectacled Pitcher Bill Dietrich of the Chicago White Sox, who was barely good enough to make the team last year, pitched the first one in the major leagues since August 31, 1935. Rarest and most satisfying kind of no-hit game is one in which no batter reaches first base, of which there are six on record in the major leagues. In Pitcher Dietrich's no-hit game, which the White...
...most valuable player in his league. First time he won this distinction was in 1933, when his earned run average - best index to a pitcher's ability - was 1.66 per game, lowest in the league. The pitching equivalent of Gehrig's four-home-run feat is a no-hit, no-run game. Hubbell achieved the only such game played in the major leagues in 1929. Left-handed pitchers, according to all baseball legend, lack control both on and off the diamond. Hubbell's secret is that he possesses control, in alarming quantities, under all circumstances. Growing...
...reaches the catcher. There are ten players on a side. In other respects, the rules of softball are almost identical with those of baseball. The most obvious difference between the games is that softball is much faster. A good softball pitcher goes through several games without allowing a run. No-hit games are common. Batters start swinging as the ball leaves the pitcher's hand. The size of the field is adapted to lighting for night games. The popularity of softball is enlarged because women are not constitutionally incapable of playing...
Eddie Ingalls, on the mound for the yearlings, pitched a no-hit game...
...Crimson needed only four hits to down the Bengal, while Lincoln was denied a no-hit, no-run performance through a scratch infield single by Dick Bell in the sixth and Ken Sandbach's long drive to left in the ninth...