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BASEBALL’S PERFECT GAME.
It all started with a pair of pants. A Brown catcher in the 1870s needed a new pair and figured the $10 fee the Worcester Worcesters offered him to play a game against Chicago’s powerhouse team would help. He convinced his friend J. Lee Richmond, a pitcher from the class of 1880, to join him. What followed was a seven-inning shutout so clean, it got Richmond, a southpaw, signed on the spot by the Worcester club. The club joined the National League in 1880, and that’s when Richmond got his perfect game. On June 12, 1880—reportedly on barely two hours of sleep after his Brown graduation bender—Richmond made history with a no-hit, no-run, no-man-on-base game against the Cleveland Blues: 27 batters up, 27 down. Later, Richmond traded curveballs for classrooms, becoming a physician, longtime science and math teacher, and eventually Dean of Men at the University of Toledo.—YUKTI AGARWAL ’24.5
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