Ron hassey biography
Hassey is the son of Joseph Bill Hassey, a former baseball player in the New York Yankees' minor-league system.!
Ron Hassey
Ron Hassey is the only catcher to have been behind the plate for two perfect games in the major leagues.
Hall of Famers Johnny Bench, Mike Piazza, Mickey Cochrane, Carlton Fisk, Gary Carter, and Roy Campanella did not catch any. Buster Posey, Yogi Berra, and Iván Rodríguez have “only” one to their name.
Ronald William Hassey was born on February 27, , in Tucson, Arizona.
In fact, through the 2023 season, only 23 catchers have caught one.
Given this achievement, one could imagine that Hassey was blessed with a long career, elite defensive skills, a powerful bat, or all three. Though he lasted 14 years in the majors, only five times did he appear in as many as 100 games.
He played for six different franchises and was traded several times, including three separate transactions in less than a year.
His primary asset was his lefthanded bat, which produced some good averages, albeit with just moderate power (his OPS+ was a league-average 100).
As Bill James described Hassey in his revised Historical Baseball Abstract: “painfully slow and