Tom Browning talks to WCPO's Tanya O'Rourke about his perfect game

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Tom Browning is known in Cincinnati as Mr. Perfect, but another nickname could be Mr. Playful. Or Mr. Unpredictable. Can you name the only baseball pitcher to sneak out of a game at Wrigley Field – in uniform - and join a party on the roof of a building across the street? Do you know the Reds player who left a World Series game without telling anybody so he could drive his wife to the hospital when she went into labor? Quick, name the only pitcher to throw a perfect game and lead the Chicken Dance at Oktoberfest Zinzinnati. The Reds left-hander went down in baseball history when he pitched a perfect game on Sept. 16, 1988 at Riverfront Stadium. It’s a feat so rare that only 23 pitchers have ever done it in more than 215,000 major league games. But Browning’s off-the-field antics earned him a place in baseball lore, which might even be more exclusive.

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