» May 19, 1937: In the first night game of the season, the visiting Bees sting the Reds, 3–1. Rookie Lou Fette is the winner over Johnny Vander Meer, making his first start in the majors. Two railroads run special trains to bring 1500 fans from Southwestern Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky.

» June 11, 1938: Cincinnati lefthander Johnny Vander Meer pitches a no-hitter against Boston, winning 3–0. Vander Meer, in his first full season, strikes out four to increase his league-leading total to 56. Danny MacFayden is the losing pitcher.

» June 15, 1938: Johnny Vander Meer stuns baseball by pitching his 2nd successive no-hitter, defeating the Dodgers and Max Butcher, 6–0. Brooklyn plays the first night game ever at Ebbets Field. In front of 38,748 fans, including spectators Babe Ruth and several hundred fans from Vandy's home town of Midland Park, NJ. Vandy strikes out seven and walks 8, including three one-out walks in the 9th. A force out at home on a grounder by Ernie Koy and a fly ball by Leo Durocher ends the game. In a pregame event, Koy, with a 10-yard start but running in his Reds' uniform, beats Olympic champion Jesse Owens in the 100-yard dash.

» June 19, 1938: After walking the leadoff hitter, Elbie Fletcher, on four pitches, the Reds Johnny Vander Meer extends his string of hitless innings to 21 2/3 (including the final out in the game before Vandy's 1st no-hitter) before Debs Garms singles for Boston in the 4th. Vandy coasts home, 14–1, allowing three hits. Vandy falls short of the record of 23 scoreless innings set by Cy Young in 1908. Young is one of 34,511, on hand for today's game at Brave's Field.

» July 6, 1938: The NL wins the sixth All-Star Game 4-1, with the aid of fine pitching and four AL errors. Starter Johnny Vander Meer gets the win.

» June 28, 1940: Johnny Vander Meer, plagued with control problems, is optioned by the Reds to Indianapolis. Vandy was ineffective in the Reds pennant drive last year and was knocked out in his only two starts this year.

» April 21, 1942: Only 4 games are played in the ML, but all end in shutouts: Pirate Rip Sewell blanks the Cubs 6-0; Reds P Johnny Vander Meer beat the Cards 1-0 in 11 innings; Cleveland's Jim Bagby nips the Tigers 1-0, and the Browns Al Hollingsworth beats the White Sox 3-0.

» May 18, 1947: Ewell Blackwell outpitches Mort Cooper to give the Reds a 2–1 win over the Braves. Red Barrett then outpitches Johnny Vander Meer, 3–1, to give the Braves a split for the day. Only a game and a half separate the first-place Braves from the 5th-place Pirates.

» August 19, 1947: Led by Eddie Miller's grand slam and six RBIs, the Reds trounce the Giants 6–1. Johnny Vander Meer is the winner over Dave Koslo.

» May 12, 1948: At Cincinnati, the Reds score three in the 9th but come up short, losing to Brooklyn, 9–7. Reds starter and loser Johnny Vander Meer doubles in the 5th and doesn't advance when Glenn Corbitt bounces a single over Billy Cox's head (as noted by Bill Deane). Pee Wee Reese retrieves the ball and keeps it, pulling off a hidden ball trick on Vandy when he wanders off 2B. Taking no chances, the Reds pinch hit for Vandy in the 6th.

» February 10, 1950: The Reds sell Johnny "double-no-hit" Vander Meer to the Cubs for an undisclosed amount of cash.

» July 15, 1952: Johnny Vander Meer, 38, of Beaumont (Texas League) pitches a no-hitter. In 1938 he pitched two consecutive ML no-hitters, still a record.

» July 26, 1991: Against the Dodgers, Montreal's Mark Gardner pitches a no-hitter for nine innings before Lenny Harris beats out an infield single in the 10th. The Dodgers get two more hits, including an RBI single by Darryl Strawberry, to plate the only run of the contest. After a 2-out walk in the 1st to Eddie Murray, Gardner retires 19 in a row. The Expos manage only two hits themselves against the combined efforts of Orel Hershiser, Kevin Gross, and Jay Howell. Gardner is the 11th pitcher to lose a no-hitter after nine innings; the last being Jim Maloney, on June 14, 1965, and the first pitcher to hurl nine no-hit innings against the Dodgers since Johnny Vander Meer, in 1938.