Jim Bunning Autographed Rawlings Official National League Baseball

Jim Bunning Autographed Rawlings Official National League Baseball.

Jim Bunning is a former professional baseball pitcher and politician who represented Kentucky in both chambers of the United States Congress. He was the sole Major League Baseball athlete to have been elected to both the United States Senate and the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Bunning pitched from 1955 to 1971 for the Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Bunning retired with the second-highest total career strikeouts in Major League history; he currently ranks 19th. With the Phillies, Bunning pitched the seventh perfect game in Major League Baseball history on June 21, 1964.