Baseball's Perfect Game


		BASEBALL'S PERFECT GAMES

The baseball data below were obtained from the Baseball Almanac. I then computed the biorhythm of each

of the players for the date of their “Perfect Game”. Read below for my startling discoveries. - Harvey Makishima, Biosoft Sports

"The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time." - Perfect Game Club Member & Hall of Famer Catfish Hunter (commenting on why he was not able to pitch another perfect game)

Words alone cannot describe pitching's top "club" and most desired goal - the masterpiece of any career, the pinnacle of the pitching aspect and one of the most difficult feats to achieve in the entire game of baseball is the perfect game.

What is a perfect game in baseball? Author Paul Dickson in The New Baseball Dictionary (1999) describes it best with, "A no-hitter in which no opposing player reaches first base, either by a base hit, base on balls, hit batter, or fielding error; i.e., the pitcher or pitchers retire all 27 opposing batters in order." Note: A bold faced entry denotes that the player was active during the previous Major League season.

There are a total of 17 players with a perfect game in this study. The following is an

analysis of their biorhythms on the date of their perfect game.

The two most significant discoveries were that there were 3 times the number of

pitchers with an emotional positive than emotional negatives on the date of their

perfect game (12 vs 4). The other extremely significant finding was that there

were 10 pitchers that had a double positive (two or more positives in their three

biorhythmic cycles) and only one with double negatives (two or more negatives).

See the symbols in this chart as they relate to the table below:

Number of occurrences per symbol (Emotional cycle). Above the horizontal line are the

+ and # symbols and together they total 12. The negative symbols - and * which are below

the line total only 4.

+	#	-	*
3	9	4	0

POSITIVES		NEGATIVES
Emotional +, #	12	Emotional -, *	4
Physical +, #	5	Physical - , *	7
Intellectual +, #	7	Intellectual -, *	6

DOUBLE POSITIVES: DOUBLE NEGATIVES

Double +, # (positives) = 10 // Double - , * (minuses) = 1

SUMMARY:

The players with an emotional positive (+, #) represented 70.1% of the players. The players with an emotional

negative (–, *) represented only 23.5% of the players. This study is consistent with my other studies involving

football, golf and basketball where a player with an emotional positive has between 2 to 4 ½ times the potential

to perform well when compared with an emotional minus. Perhaps more significant is that 10 of the 17 pitchers

had a double positive versus only 1 of 17 with a double negative. Can you see how FantasyBio will help you

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Perfect Games
Name	Date of Event	Birth Date	Biorhythm
Cy Young	5-5-1904	3-29-1867	+ + -
Addie Joss	10-02-1908	4-12-1880	+ # +
Charlie Robertson	4-30-1922	1-31-1896	L # +
Don Larsen	10-08-1956	8-07-1929	C # -
Catfish Hunter	5-08-1968	4-08-1946	- + #
Len Barker	5-15-1981	7-07-1955	- # +
Mike Witt	9-30-1984	7-20-1960	H - *
Kenny Rogers	7-28-1994	11-10-1964	* - *
David Wells	5-17-1998	5-20-1963	- # +
David Cone	7-18-1999	1-02-1963	H - #
Lee Richmond	6-12-1880	5-05-1857	* # -
John Ward	6-17-1880	3-03-1860	+ - -
Jim Bunning	6-21-1964	10-23-1931	- + C
Sandy Koufax	9-09-1965	12-30-1935	- # -
Tom Browning	9-16-1988	4-28-1960	* # +
Dennis Martinez	7-28-1991	4-8-1960	+ # #
Randy Johnson	05-18-2004	9-10-1963	+ L +