100 years ago: Bill Gatewood throws first no-hitter in Negro National League history
On June 6, 1921, Bill Gatewood, nearing his 40th birthday, took the mound at Detroit’s Mack Park in a Negro National League game between his Detroit Stars and the visiting Cincinnati Cuban Stars. Gatewood made history that day, facing only 29 batters in completing the first-ever no-hitter in Rube Foster’s two-year-old Negro National League, leading […]