Ted Silary [silaryt@...] covered an interesting prep game
yesterday and asks the familiar question, 'How rare is it?' Anybody know of
another occurrence, at any level? (No mention of number of innings, btw).
Be sure to copy Ted in your reply. Thanks.

For the record, while passing thru this neighborhood, in regard to the bigs:
http://tinyurl.com/2ba99r

Rapid Robert Feller threw a no-no on Opening Day 1940, but gave up five
walks. The list of MLB perfectos is short enough to know that it's never
happened in an opener, the earliest being Charlie Robertson's gem for the
White Sox vs the Tigers at Navin Field on 4/30/1922.

Rod Nelson
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<< a local kid pitched a perfect game in his team's OPENER yesterday.

john barr, sr. RH at germantown academy. bound for virginia. also a very
good OF. they beat archbishop wood, 4-0. 10 strikeouts. game was at GA.

perfect game in an opener -- is this possibly unprecedented in high
school/college/pro history??

i'd imagine it's impossible to know for sure, but it sure seems highly
unusual, right? >>