Not all history makes the record books, even in baseball

Do you know who this is? A REAL baseball aficianado would of course recognize Ramon Bragaña. The right-hander pitched from 1928 to 1948 for several teams in the Cuban winter league, and from 1940 to 1951, he was also the star pitcher for los Azules de Veracruz. His career in Cuba (including setting the record for the most consecutive scoreless innings: 39 and 2/rds, during the 1941-42 season) and in Mexico (as the winning pitcher of 179 games during his career) led to his induction in both nation’s Baseball Hall of Fame (Cuba in 1960, Mexico in 1964). Bragaña also pitched for the New York Cubans and the Buckeyes in the Negro Baseball League, but if remembered in the United States, it’s not so much for no-hitters as for having pitched to a batter who hit a home run off his pitch at an exhibition game between the Azules and the Mexico City Diablos Rojos played at Parque Delta in Mexico City on 30 May 1946… a seminal event in baseball history that didn’t count.

Why?

Answer after the jump

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