This person in the small image above is the late Johnny Vander Meer, a pitcher during the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.

Seventy-five years ago this week, Vander Meer did something no other pitcher did before and since.

As a member of the Cincinnati Reds, he pitched no-hitters in back-to-back starts.

His first no-hitter came at home in the old Crosley Field, he no-hit the Boston Bees (who later became the Boston Braves). Four days later, on the road in Ebbets Field, he no-hit the Brooklyn Dodgers.

It is considered to be one of the unbreakable records because it's so difficult to throw one no-hitter. Throwing two is hard, two in one season especially (Roy Halladay threw two no-nos in 2010 [the first one a perfect game, the second the second postseason no-hitter ever and first since Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series]). Vander Meer threw consecutive no-hitters, and only pitcher came closest: In 1988, former Toronto Blue Jay pitcher Dave Stieb was one out away from throwing back-to-back no-hitters, only to have both broken up.