One of the best things to come across when you're researching is when a pitcher won both games of a doubleheader. Starting both games of a doubleheader is rare enough (and hasn't happened since 1973), but winning both is amazing. Throwing a no-hitter for one of them is even more amazing.
Clifford Randolph was a so-so minor league pitcher around 1910. He pitched in the New York State League and New England League from 1909 to 1911, and then pitched in semi-pro ball in 1912 and 1913. He returned to organized baseball with the Perth Amboy Pacers of the D-level Atlantic League, and went 12-9. But the Atlantic League went out of business before the 1915 season, and so the Perth Amboy Pacers played as a semi-pro team.
On September 6th, 1915, Clifford beat both the Franklin and St. Anthony teams in a doubleheader. In the first game, he beat the Franklin team in a 1-0 pitcher's duel, allowing the grand total of zero hits and striking out 11 batters. The opposing pitcher, "Chunk" Applegate struck out 13, and the only run was scored on a play similar to the famous play where Johnny Pesky held the ball too long in the 1946 World Series*. Mickey Loeser, left fielder for the Pacers, drew a walk in the seventh inning and went to second on a ground out. Then right fielder Eddie Regan hit a single into right. Franklin right fielder Foster made a quick return to first baseman "Eats" Coley, who hesitated long enough for Loeser to slide across home with the winning run.
* Actually, Pesky most likely did not hold the ball for long, and it's just a myth.
In the second game, the first batter he faced, first baseman "Butch" Worth, lined a single off him. Another single and an error by Randolph himself led to two runs in the first inning, but he recovered to win 4-3.
I'm hoping to make this into a series. I know Rube Parnham did this occasionally, so I'll do a post on him next.
