American baseball player and manager (died 1997)

Johnny Vander Meer

John Samuel Vander Meer was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a left-handed pitcher, most prominently as a member of the Cincinnati Reds, where he became the only pitcher in Major League Baseball history to throw two consecutive no-hitters, an accomplishment which has long been considered to be impossible to replicate. He was a member of the 1940 World Series winning team. After the impressive start to his major league career, he experienced problems controlling the accuracy of his pitching, and his later career was marked by inconsistent performances.

Born

1914

November 2

Died

1997

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1910s

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1997 Died

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The world in 1914

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april 20 Nineteen men, women, and children participating in a strike are killed in the Ludlow Massacre during the Colorado Coalfield War.
april 21 Ypiranga incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz.
april 24 The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
august 1 World War I: The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.

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