In 1999: Jose Jimenez of the St. Louis Cardinals pitched one of the most unlikeliest no-hitters in baseball history. Jimenez out dueled Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks for a 1-0 victory at Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix. He walked two and hit a batter while Johnson also pitched a complete game and gave up a broken-bat infield single for the Cards’ only run. In his only year as a starter, the 26-year old Jimenez was just 5-14 with a 5.85 ERA (he did once have 41 saves in a season with the Rockies) and would finish with a 24-44 career record.
In 1985 It was one of those moments that you just wish you were there. In a Class A Florida League game, Umpire Keith O’Connor threw someone out of the game for objecting to a call he had just made. Funny thing was, it was the organist, Wilbur Snapp, who got tossed. After a bad call, Snapp thought it would be funny to play “Three Blind Mice,” but the umpire did not find it amusing. O’Connor walked up to the backstop screen, pointed directly at Snapp and ejected him from the game. The story broke nationally, and Snapp (who died in 2003) claimed that a single day didn’t go by without somebody asking him to play “Three Blind Mice.”
