Lee Richmond created baseball perfection
The entry also stipulates that the first use of the term ‘perfect game’ occurred on Jan. 10, 1909 when the Washington Post reported that “[Ed] Walsh congratulated Addie Joss on the latter’s feat of pitching a perfect game [on October 2, 1908].”
Several obituaries made making note of the rare event he introduced to baseball. However, many remembered him for other reasons, as noted by a published eulogy which said, “Honored as a gentleman, envied as a scholar, revered as a friend, respected as a man, Dr. Richmond will always be remembered by us who were proud to know him as a leader.”
Jim Gates is the librarian emeritus at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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