Steven Lee "Buzz" Busby (born September 29, 1949) is an American former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Kansas City Royals.
Drafted by the Royals in 1971 in the second round, the University of Southern California graduate made his major league debut the following season and stuck in the majors for good in 1973, when he won 16 games and on April 27 pitched the first no-hitter in Kansas City Royals history, defeating the Detroit Tigers at Tiger Stadium 3–0 on April 27.
[1][2] Busby became the first no-hit pitcher who did not come to bat during the entire game, with the American League having adopted the designated hitter rule that year.
Late in the 1972 season on September 20 against the California Angels, Busby hit a first-inning grand slam only to have it taken back by the first base umpire John Rice, who said time out had been called to eject Jerry May.
After missing the entire 1977 season and most of 1978, he pitched in 22 games (including 12 starts) the next year, compiling a respectable 6–6 record with a 3.63 ERA, but his walks outnumbered his strikeouts (64-to-45).
Unlike most former players, Busby acts as both a play-by-play man and a color commentator, and traded positions with Eric Nadel on radio broadcasts.