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There have been 16 perfect games pitched in baseball history, each of them discussed in James Buckley Jr.'s new book, ``Perfect.'' The roster includes Hall of Famers such as Cy Young and Catfish Hunter and one-shot marvels like Len Barker and Mike Witt, each of them going 27 up, 27 down in one magical game.

I saw Lenny Barker's perfect game on live TV (I almost went....grrrr). Most incredible thing I've ever seen. He struck out two of the three batters in each of the 4th through 8th innings and never went to three balls on a hitter the entire game.

-Eric

I've seen a video of Barker's game. It was indeed a jewel.

One thing I always found intriguing: Nolan Ryan pitched seven no-hitters in his career but never a perfect game.

Most punctuative perfect game: Sandy Koufax - it was his fourth no-hitter, in the fourth consecutive season in which he threw a no-hit, no-run game, and, as an early Koufax biographer described it, it proved that practise makes perfect. To say nothing of it being a) his 22nd win of the season (he would finish with 26 wins in 1965), and b) pitched down the pennant stretch.