In the 101 years baseball has contested a World Series, there’s only been one perfect game pitched: Don Larsen of the New York Yankees in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series between the Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers. October 8, 1956.
And Larsen needed to be pretty sharp, because his Brooklyn counterpart, Sal Maglie, was pretty strong himself; tossing a complete game 5-hitter. Maglie’s only real blemish was Mickey Mantle’s 2-out solo homer in the fourth; Hank Bauer singled home the second run in the sixth inning.
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