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Posted By: Rhys

I would bet anything the card is right, but like Joshua said, it probably takes what we consider to be minor leagues into account. For example, I have some newspaper accounts of when Roy Castleton pitched a perfect game in 1905 for Youngstown. It makes mention about how it was the third in baseball history and how it was better than Cy Youngs. It does not differenciate one bit that it was a "minor league" accomplishment. That is just how they looked at it 100 years ago when there was no such as designated major and minor leagues, just amatuer and professionalism. I am sure there were 4 other documented occuranced they could point to back then when they did their write ups.

Rhys Yeakley