Jack Kralick

Kralick was born in Youngstown, Ohio, an industrial town with a strong amateur baseball tradition, and attended Michigan State University. On August 8, 1956, Kralick pitched a 5–0 seven-inning no-hitter for the Duluth–Superior White Sox in a match against the Fargo–Moorhead Twins. But the parent Chicago White Sox released Kralick during the middle of the 1958 minor-league season, and he was signed as a free agent by the Washington Senators' organization. == Major league debut and no-hitter ==

Kralick made his Major League debut with the Senators on April 15, 1959. He made the Senator staff for the entire season, posting a winning mark (8–6) and a (3.04) ERA in 35 games during the club's final year before its transfer to Minneapolis–St. Paul. On August 20, 1961, he participated in the most recent of the six major league games in which two pitchers hit a home run for the same team, with the other pitcher being Al Schroll. Then, on August 26, 1962, he no-hit the Kansas City Athletics 1–0 at Metropolitan Stadium, the first no-hitter in the history of the Twins franchise subsequent to its relocation to Minnesota. He retired the first 25 batters before a walk to George Alusik spoiled his bid for a perfect game. == Later career ==

Kralick was traded by the Minnesota Twins to the Cleveland Indians for Jim Perry on May 2, 1963. The transaction was made out of necessity for both teams. Kralick, along with Jim Kaat and Dick Stigman, had been one of three left-handers on the Twins' four-man starting rotation, while the Indians' only southpaw starter was Sam McDowell. Kralick was an All-Star in 1964. He played the final game of his major league career on April 23, 1967. Instead, he was sidelined for the remainder of the campaign after he sustained a cerebral contusion and temporary diplopia when he lost control of his automobile which crashed into a retaining wall on the Memorial Shoreway near Cleveland Stadium in the early hours of May 2. The Mets offered him an invitation to its spring training camp prior to the 1968 season, but he chose to officially retire as an active player and begin working as an insurance salesman for The North American Life Assurance Company of Toronto. In 1973, he moved to Alaska, eventually settling in Soldotna with his family, where he served as a pitching coach for the Anchorage Glacier Pilots. In 1988, he moved to San Blas, Mexico. == References ==