This Day in Baseball: Addie Joss’s Perfect Game

By Precious Sanders @pdsanders99

On October 2, 1908, Addie Joss of the Cleveland Naps pitched a perfect game against the Chicago White Sox. Joss’s performance was the fourth perfect game in Major League Baseball history, and the second in American League history. Joss pitched in front of a crowd of 10,598 at League Park, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Addie Joss (Library of Congress)