Site of the first perfect baseball game by a black team, the Cuban X Giants.
This site supports an effort to recognize the feat of Dan McClellan and the 1903 Cuban X Giants with a historical plaque, or marker, of acknowledgement.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 11 October 2008 )
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McClellan's Great Pitching.
Not One Penn Park Batsman Reached First Base
McClellan, Manager Lamar's dusky south-paw pitcher established a new record for the Cuban X-Giants when he shut out the Penn Park team with out a run or a hit. Even more remarkable than this is the fact that Penn Park did not get a man on first base in the entire nine innings of the game. Just twenty-seven batsmen faced McClellan and although he did not strike very many of them out the perfect support he was given made it possible for McClellan to receive the credit for the greatest exhibition of pitching ever seen in York. The fielding of several members of the Giants' team was even more phenomenal than that of the day before. Hill duplicated his trick of Thursday by jumping into the air several feet pulling down a high bounding grounder and retiring the runner at first. On another occasion he handled a fast grounder close to the third base line and by a perfect throw caught the runner a foot from the bag. Johnson's fielding at short was of the same character. Twice he went into the outfield for high flys and in the ninth inning he made a one-handed stop and quick throw of Lipp's hard grounder, which under ordinary circumstances would have been a base hit.
The home team played a clever game in the field. Hilbert was in the box and he pitched good ball in all but two innings, the fourth and fifth, when the Giants secured all their runs and then of their thirteen hits. He fielded his position in fine style and this was really one of the features of the game. The fielding of
Becker Legan and Clay was firstclass.
Bob Sturgeon umpired the game and not one kick was made. The attendance was about 300.
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The Gazette York, PA July 18, 1903
Related: Penn Park Perfection
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1907 Photo
Photo by Dick Clark, from the Negro Leagues Book, 1994 SABR
Dan McClellan became the first black to pitch a perfect game, in July 1903 in York, PA. at Penn Park.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 08 November 2008 )
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