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    Don James Larsen (August 7, 1929 – January 1, 2020) was an American professional baseball pitcher. During a 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career...
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  • On October 8, 1956, in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series, pitcher Don Larsen of the New York Yankees threw a perfect game against the Brooklyn Dodgers at...
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    definition. No pitcher has thrown more than one. The perfect game thrown by Don Larsen in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series is the only postseason perfect game...
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    or coached in 21 World Series, 13 on the winning side. Berra caught Don Larsen's perfect game in game five of the 1956 World Series. He also holds the...
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  • World Series, thrown by Don Larsen for the New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers on October 8, 1956. By coincidence, Larsen, and the catcher for...
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  • (Games 3–7) to cap off the comeback. The highlight was Don Larsen's perfect game in Game 5. Larsen was named the Series MVP for his achievement. The Dodgers...
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    Stone (1980) Most wins, rookie: 19, Wally Bunker (1964) Most losses: 21, Don Larsen (1954) Best won-lost %: .808, Dave McNally (1971) Most bases on balls:...
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    reaches any base during the course of the game." This feat was achieved by Don Larsen in 1956, David Wells in 1998, David Cone in 1999, and Domingo German in...
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  • and Bob Hazle each made outs to end the fifth. Yankees relief pitcher Don Larsen had his comfortable lead cut down to just four runs. In the seventh inning...
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    the Yankees twice in the series; both victories were complete games. Don Larsen won the 1956 World Series MVP after pitching the only no-hitter in World...
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    That year's team suffered some ignominy in being on the losing end of Don Larsen's perfect game in Game 5, which was the first of only three no-hitters...
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    no-hitters in MLB history: two solo and one combined. On October 8, 1956, Don Larsen of the New York Yankees threw a perfect game in Game 5 of that year's...
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  • 4–2 Yankees and knock O'Dell out of the game. Boyer's sacrifice fly off Don Larsen extended their lead to 5–2. The Yankees got a final run in the ninth on...
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  • went the distance. Yankee manager Casey Stengel again chose Don Larsen to start Game 7. Larsen had only lasted 2+1⁄3 innings starting Game 7 in the 1957...
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    first right-handed pitcher to throw a no-hitter at Yankee Stadium since Don Larsen 40 years earlier. First no-hitter thrown at Coors Field. First Japanese...
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    became the second player to pitch a no-hitter in the postseason, joining Don Larsen of the New York Yankees, who pitched a perfect game in the 1956 World...
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    leadoff walk off Don Larsen and scored on Jim Gilliam's RBI double. In the top of the fourth, after a leadoff walk and single, Don Bessent relieved Erksine...
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    game, former Yankees pitcher Don Larsen threw the ceremonial first pitch to Berra; the two comprised the battery for Larsen's perfect game in 1956. Cone's...
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  • trade with the Chicago White Sox the Giants acquired Billy Pierce and Don Larsen for Bob Farley, Eddie Fisher, Dom Zanni, and Verle Tiefenthaler. The Dodgers...
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    the charge. Robertson's perfect game was the last for 34 years, when Don Larsen pitched one in the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers; the...
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    Stahl a ball, issuing a walk to the pinch-hitter. Former Yankees pitcher Don Larsen—who threw the fourth perfect game of the modern era and the only one in...
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    Game 5 of the 1956 World Series. During the episode, he held a forum with Don Larsen, who pitched MLB's only postseason perfect game during that game, and...
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    World Series to the Yankees in 1956 during which the Yankees pitcher Don Larsen pitched the only World Series perfect game in baseball history and the...
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  • kinescope of NBC's coverage of Game 5 of the 1956 World Series in which Don Larsen hurled the Fall Classic's only perfect game. The game included all original...
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    shot, a home run into the center field bleachers of Wrigley Field. f Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in World Series history in Game 5. g In...
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  • Series play and only World Series perfect game, delivered by the Yankees' Don Larsen in Game 5. February 8, 1956: Lou Berberet, Bob Wiesler, Herb Plews, Dick...
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    was the fourth perfect game in Yankees history, after games thrown by Don Larsen in 1956, by David Wells in 1998, and David Cone in 1999. As the Yankees...
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    comedian Don Larsen (1929–2020), American baseball player Don Lemon (born 1966), American television personality and current host of CNN Tonight Don L. Lind...
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    regular basis in a rotation which included Whitey Ford, Bobby Shantz, Don Larsen and Bob Turley. In a nine-season career, Ditmar compiled a 72–77 record...
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  • Zealand rugby player Brad Larsen (born 1977), Canadian ice hockey player Don Larsen (1929–2020), American baseball player Edvard Larsen (1881–1914), Norwegian...
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