September 2, 200718 yr All right, the following quotation is what Rob Neyer wrote about Bucholz and two other rookies who threw no-hitters: But there are flukes, and there are flukes. Holloman's no-hitter was an absolute fluke, one of the more improbable events in the game's long history. Buchholz's no-hitter, though? Merely a particularly lucky outing for a healthy, immensely talented pitcher with (apparently) the guts of a cat burglar. But wait a minute...I remember reading something this morning from Gordon Edes of the Boston Globe... "I don't even have a word for it," said Buchholz, who before being signed had to convince scouting director Jason McLeod and Theo Epstein ("We flew him up here and interrogated him in the outfield," Epstein said) that he was a different guy than the one caught stealing some laptop computers from a middle school while he was in college. So he really was a cat burglar!
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