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James Augustus Hunter (April 8, 1946 – September 9, 1999), nicknamed "Catfish", was an American professional baseball player in Major League Baseball (MLB). From 1965 to 1979 , he was a pitcher for the Kansas City / Oakland Athletics and New York Yankees .
On May 8, 1968, Jim "Catfish" Hunter of the Oakland Athletics pitched the ninth perfect game in Major League Baseball history, defeating the Minnesota Twins 4–0 at Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum. The game was not televised. Hunter struck out 11 batters, including the last two batters he faced: Bruce Look and pinch-hitter Rich Reese.
Thurman Lee Munson was born on June 7, 1947, in Akron, Ohio, to Darrell Vernon Munson and Ruth Myrna Smylie, and he was the youngest of four children. [5] His father was a World War II veteran who became a truck driver while his mother was a homemaker. [6]
a Catfish Hunter also had one Opening Day start for the Kansas City Athletics in 1966, giving him a total of four Opening Day starts with the franchise. Hunter got the loss in his Opening Day start in 1966. [66]
Charlie Finley's Swingin' A's dominated baseball in the early 1970s with a roster filled with big characters. Led by slugger Reggie Jackson, dominant starters Catfish Hunter and Vida Blue, the A's knocked off the Reds, Mets and Dodgers in successive seasons to join the Yankees as the only baseball franchises to win three straight titles.
Catfish Hunter made one Opening Day start for the Kansas City Athletics, but later made three Opening Day starts for the Oakland Athletics, giving him a total of four for the franchise. [4] In the ten years from 1904 through 1913 the Athletics used four different Opening Day starting pitchers.
The Orioles hit two singles in the bottom half off of Catfish Hunter, who was relieved by Rollie Fingers and Brooks Robinson's RBI single made it 5–3 Oakland, but they got that run back in the ninth when Angel Mangual hit a leadoff single off of Bob Reynolds, moved to third on a sacrifice bunt and passed ball, and scored on Campaneris's ...
This is a list of award winners and league leaders for the Athletics of Major League Baseball.. The team was known as the Philadelphia Athletics from 1901 to 1954, the Kansas City Athletics from 1955 to 1967, and the Oakland Athletics from 1968 to 2024.