fyi: Johnny Vander Meer, in 1938, while pitching for the Reds, pitched CONSECUTIVE no hitters vs the Boston Braves and Brooklyn Dodgers, 4 days apart.....truly a record that will never be broken....and likely never equaled.
Pretty sure it was his first two starts of the season. So even if somebody ever pitches back to back no-no's, it's very unlikely they'll do it their first two trips out. These days, they seldom let pitchers finish early season games. Pitch counts and all that.
I didn't know that the Tulsa farm team had been aligned with the Reds, who were likely called the Red Legs at the time. My earliest memories were of Tulsa Oilers being a Cardinal farm club in the Texas League with Amarillo, Austin, San Antonio, Victoria and Rio Grande Valley. Maybe 1960.
Amarillo was the Gold Sox, Austin was the Senators, San Antonio was the Missions. A year or two later, I don't remember who left, but the two new teams were the El Paso Sun Kings and the Albuquerque Dukes, which was terribly inconvenient, since both were in the Mountain Time Zone,and the games didn't end til way past my bedtime. The radio broadcasts were simulated, with a western union ticker providing the batter by batter result, and the in Tulsa studio broadcaster making up some of the details. Canned crowd noise and thumping his pencil close to the microphone, when the ball was hit. The Western Union set up caused about a ten minute delay, maybe more. So the games ran past 11 p.m. on a weeknight.
Obviously, it was a very different time.
