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My strange sport story:

I used to attend several games a season at Yankee stadium when I lived in nyc. I've seen my share of wins and losses, extra inning games and antics in the stands.

Late in the 1993 season, I was still relaxing after taking the NY Bar Exam in July and decided to attend an afternoon game with a friend. The pitcher was Jim Abbott, a MLB player most notable for having only one hand. Jim had beaten the odds by getting into the major leagues and becoming a Yankee!

The Yankees were a couple of games behind Toronto and were hoping to catch them for the division crown. The game was important, but no more notable than any of the other 161 games that season.

Except that was the day that the one handed pitcher made history! He dispatched the first Indian batters handily. Looking good.

Three innings later, the crowd was stirring a bit. People looked over at the scoreboard. Zero hits.

Two innings later the intensity was there. Nobody discussed it in the stands (an oldschool mlb jinx) but we all alluded to it. After the 8th inning of no-hit ball, we went into the 9th inning on the brink of history.

And Jim Abbott did it! One of the few major leauge ballplayers to ever pitch a no hitter, and the only one-handed man to pitch a no hitter! The only no-hitter I attended, too! HISTORY!!! :-)