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Remembering a perfect game on Father’s Day

On Father’s Day, 1964, Philadelphia Phillies’ right-hander Jim Bunning pitched a perfect game against the New York Mets in Shea Stadium.

Bunning’s two-hour, 10-minute masterpiece – 90 pitches, 10 strike outs – during a double-header’s first game had special significance. At the time, Bunning and his wife, Mary Theis, had seven children. Eventually, the Bunnings, married 60 years, would have nine ch…

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