Even Jimmy Qualls, the Cubs guy responsible for the "Im" in Tom Seaver's Imperfect Game 46 years ago, hardly is known outside this city and Chicago. He is infamous here for his ninth-inning single, identified as a "sin" by multitudes of New York baseball watchers. Because Seaver was Seaver, Qualls remains the most famous of the unknowns, the most widely recognized of the no-name batters who made Mets pitchers one-hit wonders until Santana.
And now, a variation on that theme has occured.