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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complete games (Games 3–7) to cap off the comeback. The highlight was Don Larsen's perfect game in Game 5, during which he struck out seven batters. Despite...
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consecutive at bats: a solo home run into the upper deck of right field against Don Larsen in the seventh inning of the first game; a two-run shot against Duke Maas...
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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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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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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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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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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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Alexander Frater, British travel writer and journalist (b. 1937) 2020 – Don Larsen, American baseball player (b. 1929) 2020 – Barry McDonald, Australian...
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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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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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the Yankees twice in the series; both victories were complete games. Don Larsen won the 1956 award after pitching the only no-hitter in World Series history...
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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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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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Aryan Nations Brad Corrigan, guitarist and vocalist of the band Dispatch Don Larsen, major league pitcher best known for his perfect game pitched in the 1956...
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Keith Larsen (born Keith Larsen Burt, June 17, 1924 – December 13, 2006) was an American actor who starred in three short-lived television series between...
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Yankees' Don Larsen. December 9, 1955: Don Hoak, Russ Meyer and Walt Moryn were traded by the Dodgers to the Chicago Cubs for Randy Jackson and Don Elston...
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another look at this and decide against it." U.S. Army Chaplain Captain Don Larsen was dismissed from his post in Iraq in 2006 after changing his religious...
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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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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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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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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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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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with Game 7 on October 10. The series is notable for Yankees pitcher Don Larsen's perfect game in Game 5. The Yankees defeated the Dodgers, four games...
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