Mike McCormack Essentials Positions: Bats: R Throws: R 63 Weight: 155 Born: 10 22, 1882 in Jersey City, NJ USA Died: 11 18 1953 in Jersey City, NJ USA Debut: 4/14/1904 Last Game: 8/31/1904 Full Name: Michael Joseph McCormack
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1967 – San Francisco Giants pitcher Mike McCormick, the National League leader with 22 victories, is honored with the 1967 National League Cy Young Award. It is the first year in which pitchers are honored in both leagues.
On September 3, 1960, Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers faces San Francisco Giants left-hander Mike McCormick in a classic pitching duel. Koufax surrenders a solo home run to Giants outfielder Felipe Alou, who accounts for the only run of the game in San Francisco’s 1-0 victory.
Despite giving up a hit in the bottom of the sixth in the Giants’ 3-0 victory over Philadelphia, Mike McCormick is credited with a no-hitter when the game is rained out, and the inning is never completed, statistically erasing the hit. Due to a rule change in 1991 that mandates a game must last for at least nine innings for the hitless effort to be called an official no-hitter, the right-hander’s five-inning rain-shortened outing no longer appears in the record book as a no-no.