I had tickets to the Dennis Martínez game, but I couldn't go because I'd left on a vacation trip. I saw highlights of the game a few days later on a TV inside the Hall of Fame.

The other team to have two perfect games pitched against it is the Twins, by Hunter in 1968 and Wells in 1998.

Several teams have been no-hit twice in the same season. One team, the 1917 Chicago White Sox, was no-hit on consecutive days by St. Louis Browns pitchers Ernie Koob and Bob Groom on May 5 and 6, 1917. These were not consecutive games because Groom's no-hitter came in the second game of a doubleheader. (Don't feel bad for that White Sox team — they won the World Series.)

The next shortest gap between games being no-hit is three days, by the Philadelphia A's in 1923. Sad Sam Jones of the Yankees threw a no-hitter against the A's on September 4, the A's' 123rd game of the season, and Howard Ehmke of the Yankees came along and did it again on September 7, game no. 126. Depending on how you feel about these things, you could also mention the Pittsburgh Alleghenys being no-hit by Al Atkinson of Philadelphia and Ed Morris of Columbus on May 24 and May 29, 1884, respectively. Also, Mike Warren of Oakland no-hit the White Sox on September 29, 1983, the Sox' 159th game, and then Jack Morris no-hit the Sox on the following April 7, Chicago's third game of the new season.

A propos of nothing at all, Kansas City's teams have been no-hit six times. What makes that rather remarkable is that they've been no-hit under five different names in four different major leagues: the Unions (UA) in 1884, the Cowboys (AA) in 1888, the Packers (FL) in 1914, the Athletics in 1962, and the Royals in 1973 and 2008.

My question is, what is the shortest time any franchise has gone between times being victimized by a perfect game? Is this the record? I would guess that it is because perfect games are so rare. What about being victimized in an "ordinary" no-hitter?

Less than a week before I turned 12, I was dragged, kicking and screaming, off to overnight camp for the first (and last) time in my life. As one with a great interest in popular culture (that was the debut year of the Beatles) and baseball, I did not want to go off into the wilderness where I'd be removed from T.V., radio, and other conveniences of modern life. I knew in the 4+ years that I had been a baseball fan that a feat called a perfect game had not been accomplished in the regular season in many years. And wouldn't you know it, the very day I left for camp, June 21, 1964, the first perfecto since I had learned about baseball got pitched. Someone at camp had a radio, and I heard snatches of the news of this game the next day. Since moving to Philadelphia, I've heard a lot about that game, though.

Even better, Addie Joss of Cleveland pitched his perfect game and Washington's Otis Clymer hit for the cycle on the same day, October 2, 1908. (Clymer's home run was one of only two that he hit in his major-league career.)

In case you're curious, the 1908 regular-season schedule ended on October 8.

The Giants' Ross Youngs hit for the cycle against the Boston Braves on April 29, 1922, the day before Charlie Robertson's perfect game for the White Sox against the Tigers.

David Wells pitched his perfect game against Minnesota on May 17, 1998, and was probably still woozy from celebrating when Oakland's Mike Blowers hit for the cycle the next day against the White Sox.

The runner on first (Ray Morgan) was promptly thrown out trying to steal second. Shore then got the next twenty six batters out. This game was actually refered to as a perfect game before being changed to a shared no-hitter (Ruth gets credit because he faced one batter).