Political Quotes

“this past Sunday, a young pitcher for the Oakland Athletics threw a perfect game. For those of you who do not know baseball, the Oakland Athletics is a baseball team, and throwing a perfect game is truly a big deal. It is such a big deal, it is only the 19th time this has ever happened--and baseball started keeping records in 1880-something--and this is the first time it happened on Mother's Day. Someone did throw a perfect game on Father's Day. On that Sunday, more than 45 years ago, one of our colleagues made history by accomplishing one of the most remarkable, most elusive, and most coveted accomplishments in all of athletics, throwing a perfect game in Major League Baseball. That pitcher was the junior Senator from Kentucky, Jim Bunning. He threw the second no-hitter of his Hall of Fame career, and I repeat: this time, a perfect game. To show how stupendous this game Senator Bunning pitched was, understand this young man who pitched a perfect game last Sunday did so, I think, throwing 108 pitches, something like that. Jim Bunning threw 90 pitches. This is unbelievable, that in 9 innings someone could pitch a whole baseball game and throw only 90 pitches. It is a rare occurrence in modern day baseball for someone to complete a game, but to complete a game--and a perfect game--in 90 pitches is truly amazing.”