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- For all the great games Carl Hubbell
- pitched, including a no-hitter in 1929, his
- greatest moment on the mound may have
- come during the 1934 All-Star Game.
- Facing an American League starting
- lineup of future Hall of Famers, Carl put his
- screwball to work. After giving up a single
- and a walk to start the game. Carl struck
- out five straight All-Stars. He fanned Babe
- Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Jimmie Foxx to end
- the first inning. Then he whiffed two more
- future Hall of Famers, Al Simmons and
- Joe Cronin, to start the second inning.
- New York Yankee catcher Bill Dickey,
- another future Hall of Famer, singled to
- break CarlΓÇÖs strikeout streak.