Perfect: The Rise and Fall of John Paciorek, Baseball's Greatest One-Game Wonder

THE MAN WHO BATTED A THOUSAND
A spectacular debut major-league game—then obscurity.

On the final day of the 1963 major-league baseball season, Houston Colt .45s teen sensation John Paciorek—in his one and only big-league game—went three-for-three, giving him a career batting average of 1.000. He also notched three RBI and scored four times. In the outfield John played magnificently, cleanly fielding all four balls hit to him. His was, truly, a perfect game—the most spectacular game ever by a...