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Texas History By Bartee Haile
“Hippo” Vaughn cursed his rotten luck on May 2, 1917, after losing the only double no-hitter in major league history.
James Leslie Vaughn grew up in Weatherford, the Texas town west of Fort Worth where he was born in 1888. And did he ever grow! To a height of six-feet five inches -- unusually tall for the turn of the century.
Determined to earn his living on a diamond, Jim Vaughn started…