Redleg Nation · May 2, 2017
Five Score and Fifteen Minutes Ago
One hundred years from this day
Will the people still feel this way
Still say the things that they’re sayin’ right now?
Gram Parsons and The Byrds asked that question in 1968, but we can answer it — at least as of May 2, 2017 — for it was exactly one hundred years ago that the Reds Fred Toney combined with the Cubs “Hippo” Vaughn for what 1917 observers called “the strangest, the most unheard-of, the most unique occurrence that ever starred a game whose commonest feats are unusual.”
People may not be sayin’ that, but they should still be talking about the Reds game from May 2, 1917 — the only double no-hitter in major league history.