The Columbus Buckeyes were a professional baseball team in the American Association from 1883 to 1884. In two seasons they won 101 games and lost 104 for a

winning percentage In sports, a winning percentage or Copeland score is the fraction of games or matches a team or individual has won. The statistic is commonly used in standings or rankings to compare teams or individuals. It is defined as wins divided by the to ...

of .493. Their home games were played at Recreation Park in

Columbus, Ohio Columbus (, ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities in Ohio, most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 United States census, 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the List of United States ...

. The Buckeyes were managed by Horace Phillips in 1883 (32–65) and Gus Schmelz in 1884 (69–39). Some of their top players were

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s Ed "Cannonball" Morris, Frank Mountain, and Ed Dundon, the first deaf player in the major leagues, and

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Tom Brown. In 1884, the Buckeyes threw two

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s in the span of a week. Morris pitched his on May 29 and Mountain threw one on June 5. The 7 day span was the closest margin of 2 no-hitters being thrown by one team in history until

Johnny Vander Meer John Samuel Vander Meer (November 2, 1914 – October 6, 1997) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a left-handed pitcher, most prominently as a member of the Cincinnati Reds, where he became the on ...

threw 2 consecutive no-hitters for the

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in a 4-day span on June 11 and 15, 1938.

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