Tom Browning's Perfect Game

September 16, 1988:

On September 16, 1988, Browning pitched the twelfth perfect game in baseball history. In a 1-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers at Riverfront Stadium, Browning threw 72 of 100 pitches for strikes and did not run the count to three balls on a single batter. Browning remains the only Red to pitch a perfect game. Browning had had a previous no-hitter broken up by a Tony Gwynn single with one out in the ninth in June of that year.
Browning just missed becoming the first pitcher to hurl two perfect games, taking another bid into the ninth on July 4, 1989, against the Philadelphia Phillies at Veterans Stadium; a lead-off single by Dickie Thon broke up this attempt. After his 1988 perfect game, Reds owner Marge Schott put a clause in his contract that stated his wife, Debbie, would receive a $300,000 bonus if he pitched another perfect game in 1989. The National League Office eventually nixed the clause.

I remember it occurred on a Friday night, because I was at our high school football game, and one of my neighbors told me he had tickets to the Reds game, and he was glad he didn't go, because it was rain delayed for over an hour.  When I got home, I turned on the radio, and heard that Browning had a perfect game through 7 innings.  I woud have rather gone to the Reds game than the football game.