Not One, But Two Perfect Games

Editor,

As always, I enjoyed your October 3-9 issue, especially Nicholas F. Benton’s stories about his days as a college baseball player. He also mentioned that he was dissaponted that that the Athletics are moving from Oakland Coliseum.

He noted that he saw the only perfect game ever pitched there by Catfish Hunter in 1968. But that was not the only perfect game pitched in the Coliseum over its storied history.

Dallas Braden pitched a perfect game there on May 9, 2010. Although Dallas Braden may not have the name recognition as “Catfish” he has a good story to tell nonetheless.

For more information on Dallas, check out the “Biggest Maniac in Baseball” on youtube’s Baseball Doesn’t Exist.

Thanks for your great newspaper.

-Jim Duffield