[BluesDuke]

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.

[E Rocc]

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

I've been looking for a copy for years.

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.

To me the most bizarre non-perfect game was a game I did go to, where Dick Bosman no-hit the Oakland A's in July of 1974. He only missed a perfect game because of a throwing error....made by himself.

This was a month and a half after the infamous "10 cent Beer Night". Which was the first game in Cleveland for a Texas Rangers rookie named Mike Hargrove.

-Eric