[lbo-talk] Wahooo! NY Mets' Santana -- 1st No-Hitter in Metshistory!

[Joshua Morey]

The padres know how to find closers - Gossage and Fingers each spent a
couple good years with them as well.
On Jun 1, 2012 11:46 PM, "Dennis Claxton" <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:


> On 6/1/2012 8:54 PM, Alan P. Rudy wrote:
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>  The Padres have had some good pitchers, too, no?
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>
> Nobody huge outside of Trever Hoffman I don't think.  They did have
> Gaylord Perry for a while, about whom there's this nice story:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Gaylord_Perry<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord_Perry>
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> Like most pitchers, Perry was not renowned for his hitting ability, and in
> his sophomore season of 1963, his manager Alvin Dark is said to have joked,
> "They'll put a man on the moon before he hits a home run." There are other
> variants on the story, but either way, on July 20, 1969, just an hour after
> the Apollo 11 spacecraft carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on
> the moon, Perry hit the first home run of his career.
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