Messer Street Grounds
aka Messer Park 1878 - 1885
Providence, RI
Historic Aerials
What Was There
| Team | Years | Games |
|---|---|---|
| (1878 - 1885)
|
358
|
No-Hitters
6/17/1880: Monte Ward (Perfect Game)
| Pitcher | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HBP | BR | BF | AB | IBB | GDP | ROE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
2
|
0
|
1
|
28
|
27
|
Starter Age: 20.107
Rank among 323: 2
Opposing Starter: Pud Galvin
Catcher: Emil Gross
Plate Umpire: Charles Daniels
Attendance: 1,800
Time of Game: 1:50
Did You Know?
- This was the second perfect game in Major League Baseball history and came only five days after Worcester's Lee Richmond tossed the first against the Cleveland Blues on June 12, 1880 at Agricultural County Fairgrounds I in Worcester.
- At 20 years and 107 days old, Monte Ward was the youngest pitcher to throw a no-hitter until Matt Kilroy threw a no-hitter against the Alleghenys on October 6, 1886 at Recreation Park in Pittsburgh at the exact same age. It wasn't until
7/27/1885: John Clarkson
| Pitcher | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HBP | BR | BF | AB | IBB | GDP | ROE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
4
|
0
|
Starter Age: 24.026
Rank among 323: 63
Opposing Starter: Old Hoss Radbourn
Catcher: Silver Flint
Plate Umpire: Tommy Bond
Attendance: 1,030
Time of Game: 1:45
Did You Know?
- This was the third of three no-hitters caught by Silver Flint (Larry Corcoran vs. Boston Red Caps on August 19, 1880 at White Stocking Park in Chicago; John Clarkson vs. Providence Grays on July 27, 1885 at Messer Street Grounds in Providence).
