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on June 11, 1938, he pitched a no hitter against the Boston Bees. Four days later against the Brooklyn Dodgers, he threw another no hitter, becoming the only man to ever throw two consecutive no hitters in the major leagues.

via Johnny Vander Meer – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

I once read this on the back of a baseball card I kept because Vandog and I share Nov. 2 birthdays.

I figured it wasn’t true (like it happened it the minors)… wrong.