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James Augustus "Catfish" Hunter (April 8, 1946 – September 9, 1999) 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.
[3] These feats were achieved by Catfish Hunter in 1968, which was the first perfect game in American League history since 1922, and Dallas Braden in 2010, [5] which was the second perfect game in the majors – both against the same team – in ten months.
Catfish Hunter's number 27 was retired by the Oakland Athletics in 1991 [10]. On May 8 against the Minnesota Twins , Hunter pitched the first regular season perfect game in the American League since 1922, [ 11 ] but the paid attendance in Oakland was only 6,298 on a Wednesday night. [ 12 ]
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.
The Mustache Gang is a term coined for the 1972 Oakland Athletics team; the Athletics broke traditionally conservative baseball views by sporting mustaches. From the change in American men's fashion away from facial hair in the 1920s to the early 1970s, there had only been two baseball players who had facial hair during the regular season: Stanley "Frenchy" Bordagaray of the Brooklyn Dodgers ...
May 8 – At Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, Catfish Hunter of the Oakland Athletics pitches a 4–0 perfect game over the Minnesota Twins. The perfect game is the first in an American League regular season game since Charlie Robertson's in 1922 and the first no-hitter in the franchise's Oakland history, which is in only its 25th game.
"Catfish" is a song written by Bob Dylan and Jacques Levy. [1] [2] It was originally recorded for Dylan's 1976 album Desire, but was not released until 1991 on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991. [3] "Catfish" was a tribute to future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Catfish Hunter. [4] [5] [6]