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Fred Toney holds the record for the longest no-hitter in organized baseball history. On May 10, 1909, while pitching for the Winchester Hustlers of the Blue Grass League, Toney defeated the Lexington Colts in 17 innings, 1–0, striking out 19 batters and walking only one, before Winchester finally scored a run on a squeeze play in the bottom of the seventeenth inning. Eight years later, now playing in the big leagues, he - along with Hippo Vaughn - took part in a truly legendary pitching contest often referred to as the "double no-hitter" game, neither ace allowing a hit until after the ninth inning:
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http://www.baseball-almanac.com/legendary/baseball_and_football_players.shtml
A list of all players who played in both the NFL and MLB:
Did you know that Bo Jackson is the only athlete in history to have played in both an All-Star Game (1989 All-Star Game) and a Pro Bowl (1990 Pro Bowl)?
Not one NFL player has ever been elected to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame as a player, but there have been eight former baseball players who have been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Red Badgro, Paddy Driscoll, George Halas, Greasy Neale, Ernie Nevers, Ace Parker, Deion Sanders and Jim Thorpe.
Hinkey Haines is the only MLB / NFL player to have played on national championship teams in both baseball (1923 New York Yankees, 1923 World Series) and football (1927 New York Giants, NFL Champions).
Fred Toney holds the record for the longest no-hitter in organized baseball history. On May 10, 1909, while pitching for the Winchester Hustlers of the Blue Grass League, Toney defeated the Lexington Colts in 17 innings, 1–0, striking out 19 batters and walking only one, before Winchester finally scored a run on a squeeze play in the bottom of the seventeenth inning. Eight years later, now playing in the big leagues, he - along with Hippo Vaughn - took part in a truly legendary pitching contest often referred to as the "double no-hitter" game, neither ace allowing a hit until after the ninth inning:
And-
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/legendary/baseball_and_football_players.shtml
A list of all players who played in both the NFL and MLB:
Did you know that Bo Jackson is the only athlete in history to have played in both an All-Star Game (1989 All-Star Game) and a Pro Bowl (1990 Pro Bowl)?
Not one NFL player has ever been elected to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame as a player, but there have been eight former baseball players who have been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Red Badgro, Paddy Driscoll, George Halas, Greasy Neale, Ernie Nevers, Ace Parker, Deion Sanders and Jim Thorpe.
Hinkey Haines is the only MLB / NFL player to have played on national championship teams in both baseball (1923 New York Yankees, 1923 World Series) and football (1927 New York Giants, NFL Champions).
