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What was more iconic? The perfect game or the picture of Yogi Berra jumping into Larsen’s arms after the last out. Baseball touches the American spirit unlike any other sport.
Yogi Berra died a few years back. Yogi was also remembered for his famous tantrum after Jackie Robinson was called safe stealing home. Yet at Yogi’s funeral mass sitting in the pews was an elderly, frail Mrs. Robinson. Jackie and Yogi quietly and without fanfare became friends. Always wondered how people like Al Sharpton explained things like that.
A legend.
A life-long Yankees fan, I’m sorry about Mr. Larsen. My sympathies for his family.
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Pretty much an average pitcher except for that one magic day. RIP.
I watched that game on TV. I was late for a Chem lab lecture class and got chewed out from the Prof after the class.
64,519 people there that day, and I was one of them.
Still have the ticket stubs.
Forgotten was that Sal Maglie also had a perfect game into the fourth inning, Mickey Mantle homered, Sandy Amoros almost homered, and Gil MacDougall at short got a deflected ball of Andy Carey’s glove to make the out.
And so many people smoked in those days that by the ninth inning you were looking into a blue haze from the outfield seats.
Memory eternal.
I’m guessing that game wasn’t recent.
RIP.
He wasn’t by chance scheduled to testify against Hillary, was he?
The world is less perfect today....Prayers to his family. RIP Mr. Don Larson
It may be just me but I find this badly written. I'd prefer "Don Larsen, the great Yankee alum ..." which shows that he played for other teams (6) in his 15 years in the majors but that he did very well as a Yankee player.
Sigh, even sports reporting has gone way down hill!
R.I.P. and condolences to his family & friends!
I was born on Sept 17th that year.
The season would have just been finishing in about a week I am guessing.
Cool,
But as a Twins fan, I really dislike the Yankees.
I did a ctrl-f search for "Larsen" and it didn't come up so I started my thread.
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