A smiling Jim "Catfish" Hunter, left, answers questions Monday, January 1, 1975 as New York Yankee president Gabe Paul listens. ASSOCIATED PRESS A most important golden anniversary passed this week.

One month after the A’s debut in the Oakland Coliseum following their move from Kansas City, they give their new fans a historic thrill. Jim “Catfish” Hunter threw a perfect game—the first in the ...

Ray Kroc pledged to make the Padres a winner when he stepped up in January of 1974 and saved the franchise from moving to Washington, D.C. Kroc’s chance to live up to that promise came 11 months later ...

HERTFORD, N.C. — With the excitement of the baseball season building, I thought we should shine the spotlight on a baseball Hall of Famer with roots in the 252. I hit the road to Hertford, North ...

Catfish has the Twins hooked. Catfish Hunter, the Oakland Athletics' 22-year-old right-hander, becomes the first American League pitcher to throw a perfect game in the regular season in 46 years when ...

Ken Holtzman, who along with Catfish Hunter and Vida Blue anchored the dominating rotation that helped lead the Oakland A’s to three straight World Series championships in the 1970s, has died. He was ...

Catfish Hunter, a pitcher for the Oakland A's and the New York Yankees, grew up in Perquimans County. He died 11 years ago this week.