Due to lack of record-keeping for Negro league baseball games, the exact number of no-hitters thrown is unknown. However, ongoing research by baseball historians has revealed that at least 34 no-hitters were thrown in the Negro leagues. Researchers have had to clarify differences between play from teams and barnstorming, and one of the no-hitters was thrown at a benefit All-Star Game. There are also at least six games that were called before nine innings were completed, due to weather or darkness.

In 2020, Major League Baseball (MLB) announced the addition of seven "Negro Major Leagues" that played from 1920 to 1948 as major leagues, which recognized statistics from over 3,400 players that played in those seasons. Under MLB rules, at least 25 no-hitters from between 1920 and 1948 could be recognized and eventually be incorporated into official no-hitter records.

Of the 25 no-hitters, four pitchers threw two: Phil Cockrell, Nip Winters, Satchel Paige, and Porter Moss. Four no-hitters were combined efforts. Leon Day threw a no-hitter on May 5, 1946, to open the season for the Newark Eagles against the Philadelphia Stars, which would be considered the second no-hitter thrown by on Opening Day after Bob Feller did so on April 16, 1940, against the Chicago White Sox. Claude Grier threw a no-hitter in Game 3 of the 1926 Colored World Series against the Chicago American Giants; it was the first no-hitter thrown in a major league postseason game, 30 years before Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series.

Regulation no-hitters

+LeaguesNNL INegro National League IECLEastern Colored LeagueEWLEast–West LeagueNNL IINegro National League IINALNegro American LeagueInd.IndependentWSColored/Negro World Series

+KeyRSRuns scoredRARuns allowedIPInnings pitchedElected to the Baseball Hall of Fame§

+#DatePitcherTeamOpponentLeaguePark1Detroit Stars4Cincinnati Cuban Stars0NNL IMack Park2 (1)Hilldale Club3Detroit Stars0Ind.Hilldale Park3Detroit Stars3St. Louis Giants0NNL IMack Park4 (1)Atlantic CityBacharach Giants7Indianapolis ABCs1NNL IAthletic Park(Kokomo, IN)5 (2)Hilldale Club3Chicago American Giants0Ind.Schorling Park6Baltimore Black Sox2Atlantic CityBacharach Giants0NNL IMaryland Park(Baltimore, MD)7 Bullet Rogan Kansas City Monarchs7Milwaukee Bears0NNL IMuehlebach Field8 (2)Hilldale Club2Harrisburg Giants0ECLWest End Grounds(Harrisburg, PA)9Chicago American Giants16Dayton Marcos0NNL ISchorling Park10§Atlantic CityBacharach Giants10Chicago American Giants0WSMaryland Park(Baltimore, MD)11Baltimore Black Sox8Cuban Stars0NNL IMaryland Park(Baltimore, MD)12 Baltimore Black Sox2Hilldale Club1ECLMaryland Park(Baltimore, MD)13Chicago American Giants3Memphis Red Sox0NNL ISchorling Park14 Chet Brewer Kansas City Monarchs4Chicago American Giants0NNL ISchorling Park15Hilldale Club6Baltimore Black Sox0Ind.Hilldale Park16 (1)Pittsburgh Crawfords6New York Black Yankees0Ind.Greenlee Field17 (2)Pittsburgh Crawfords4Homestead Grays0NNL IIGreenlee Field18New York Cubans12Newark Eagles1NNL IIDelano-HitchRecreational Park19Kansas City Monarchs4Chicago American Giants0NALMuehlebach Field20St. Louis–New Orleans Stars6New York Black Yankees1NALBelleville Athletic Field(Belleville, IL)21 Terris McDuffie J. C. Hamilton Homestead Grays19New York Cubans0NNL IIIdora Park22 (1)Memphis Red Sox5Cincinnati Clowns0NALRusswood Park23 (2)Memphis Red Sox6New York Black Yankees0NALMartin Park(Memphis, TN)24Newark Eagles2Philadelphia Stars0NNL IIRuppert Stadium25 Neck Stanley New York Black Yankees4Newark Eagles1NNL IIRed Wing Stadium

See also Lists of no-hitters List of Major League Baseball no-hitters

References

External links

Negro Leagues no-hitters at NoNoHitters.com Boxscores of Negro League No-Hitters at Retrosheet