European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes bets stash i it r of no Swoboda uniform to Hall of Fame Page i Oakland Calm it i ate Tahu gbtnir1 to if give baseball s Hall of Fame Jim Catfish Hunter s entire uni form but the Ball he used to strike out Rich Reese of the Minnesota twins for the final out of his historic perfect games going Home to Hertford . They can have any Ball the want said the Youthful Oak land a s Pitcher but that Lastone belongs to me i la keep it As Long As i live because it sure Inu Fei i fifth Victory timer Swoboda s first april 30, gave the met outfielder eight for the season. Has driven in 22 runs. The mets trailed 1-0 going into the seventh when Ren bos Well jingled Home the tying . With runners Oto second and Hird and one out Swobod Adrove one into the left Field Jenkins suffers loss Ferguson Jenkins was the Vic Lim of the spree suffering his dec Ovid loss of the season an the first Ever to the mets after live victories. Koosman checked the cubs on to hits during his six inning Jeh tire. Ca Koonce finished up Reti Fiig the last nine cubs in or Der. A with Phil Regan pitching forthe cubs in the eighth Tommie Agee padded the mets Lea with his first National league Homer. It was also Agee s first run batted in this season. The cubs scored their Only run in the second inning when Poji Santo doubled moved to third on an infield out arid scored on Koosman s wild pitch no. 8 for Ron new York chicagoan Brhel Abr Hbl a 5 1 3 0 Kessinger is 4000 2b 3111 Beckert 2b 4 000 if 3 000 Williams if 4 0 10 v 1000 Santo 3b 4110gwotoda it 3133 Banks in 4000 kit Pool in 4 0 0 0 Johnson of 3000 5030 Boccella c 2 000 51 p 30.1000 6 00 Bosch or Johes u. Total 4000 Regan p 0000 Spangler pm 0100 Hartston p 00001000 385115. Total 000 000 010 000 Buchek so 1 2 0 41060 001 a Williams. Boswell Koosman w.5-1 Koonce Kranepool h rerbbgo2 1 122 0 0 0 21 4 4 3 6 Asp Jenkins Koos Man 2. I a Kvera upsets Corona 10-round decision launched a Ofca Oll Verain la us trons body attack awarded St Athlene. Ads and was " Vii Jim Catfish Hunter after perfect game a moment i la never forget Oft to took me a Long time to get that final Hunter Only the second american league Pitcher in the last 46 years to pitch a regular season perfect game saw Reese foul off four pitches after being3-2 before he finally fanned for Hunter s Lith strikeout and the perfect game wednesday night. For a while there i thought 1was never going to get him out said Hunter still basking in the glory of his achievement nearly 24 hours later at a Newsib Ference. That boy kept on fouling off everything i threw up there. I sure was glad to see him strike so Hunter admitted he was in such a state of Shock that he really did t know what to do for a second or two then the boys began to mob me and i finally realized what i had done. It s a moment i Lynever forget no matter what i go on to Hunter in his fourth big league season although he is Only 22, said his one big goal is to win 20 s the Standard by which they judge How Good a Pitcher you Are he said then adding almost matter of factly that show you make the big Money Hunter paid credit to Catcher Jim Pagliaroni for his perfect game. He never let up on me Sai 3hunter. Even in the eighth and ninth innings he kept right Ohmert s that kind of a Catcher that can the Best in Pitcher and Jim sure did great Job with , who threw Only one curve Ball in the game said he averages about three or four mistakes a game. For him mistake is hanging a curve Ball i Only threw one curve an that one Hung for Harmon kill e brew ? Hunter said Lucky for me he fouled it off knew it was a bad pitch the second it left my hand. Then i managed to strike him out.", Killebrew who leads the homers with seven struck out three times against Hunter who threw fastballs and sliders o achieve his perfect game. I have a pretty fair curve All but i hardly Ever try to get t Over the plate said Hunter i like to use it the Way some pitchers use a change of Pace. Throw
