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On July 17, 1924 On Tuberculosis Day at Sportsman’s Park, the Cards’ Jesse Haines hurls his only shutout in two years, a 5 – 0 no-hitter over the Braves. “While the majestic northpaw was realizing his lifelong pitching ambitions, the Cardinals were making merry with the right-hand shoots of McNamara” (St. Louis Globe-Democrat). It is the first no-hitter by a St. Louis hurler since 1876, and the first-ever National League no-hitter in St. Louis. It will be 54 years before another no-hit game is thrown in St. Louis, a span that will end in 1978 when Bob Forsch holds the Phillies hitless at Busch Stadium. Rogers Hornsby chipped in with 3 hits to power the Cardinal offense.

“I started as I always do,” said Haines of his fateful performance against the Boston Braves, “trying the corners with my curve on the outside to right-handed hitters and keeping the fast one close to the handle of the bat.”, “[N]ot even a questionable hit,” opined the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, while the Boston Globe gushed, “nothing doubtful whatsoever about Haines’ brilliant accomplishment.”

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