If you were to ask any baseball fan about the Yankees no-hitter on September 4th, most everyone would immediately think of Jim Abbott’s gem at Yankee Stadium in 1993. But did you know that the one-handed lefty was not the only Yankees pitcher to keep his opponent hitless on the fourth day of September? Seventy years before Abbott secured a spot for himself in baseball immortality, Sad Sam Jones put together one of the strangest no-hitters in the game’s history.
Having made his major league debut with Cleveland on June 13, 1914, one year after bouncing around the Ohio minor league circuit and a semipro basketball league, Sad Sam Jones was already an eight-year veteran.