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Old 10-01-2015, 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Scott Garner View Post
I recently picked up a few unique new items to add to my advanced Johnny Vander Meer collection.

1) An extremely rare 1938 promotional booklet entitled "Souvenir of John Vander Meer's Two No-Hit Games". The booklet includes information about other pitchers that had been previously successful at throwing two no-hitters.
The promotional booklet has an odd error regarding the other pitchers who had thrown at least two major-league no-hitters in their career. It states that two pitchers had thrown three, including Frank Smith; one of Smith's listed no-hitters is indicated as having been pitched for Cleveland of the NL on September 18, 1897.

Smith was not yet in the major leagues in 1897; it was Cy Young who pitched a no-hitter for Cleveland on that date, and Young (not Smith) who had three no-hitters during his career.
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