winning theTriple Crownby batting .353 with a career-high 52 home runs and 130 RBIs in one of the greatest hitting seasons in baseball history. But the '56 Fall Classic is best remembered for one of the most legendary performances in postseason history: Don Larsen'sperfect gamein Game 5....
1:51 Scully calls Larsen's perfecto 1955 World Series: Dodgers over Yankees BRO won in 7 The Brooklyn Dodgers became the first team to overcome a 2-0 deficit in a playoff series in 1955, winning the franchise's first and only title before it relocated to Los Angeles. It was also the ...
Star Turns Mays also made the most memorable defensive play of the 1950s. He tracked down a fly ball in deep center field in the 1954 World Series with his back to the plate, then turned 180 degrees to throw the ball back to the infield. Two years later, Don Larsen of the Yankees p...
It's Willie Mays catching what can't be caught and Don Larsen being perfect where perfection is simply not possible. It's Babe Ruth telling the fans and media where he is going to deposit the next pitch and a heavily outscored team of Pirates beating the unbeatable Yankees off a ninth ...
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1956: Don Larsen's perfect game Tied 2-2 and with the World Series headed back across the East River to Brooklyn after Game Five, the New York Yankees needed a stellar performance from Don Larsen to keep hope alive in capturing another championship. On Oct. 8, 1956, Larsen answered the ...
At the start of the 1955 season, 13 of 16 teams fielded an African-American player. Future Hall of Famers like Brooks Robinson, Harmon Killebrew, Roberto Clemente, and Sandy Koufax all made their debuts this year. 1956: Don Larsen's perfect game Jim McIsaac // Getty Images 1956: Don ...
At the start of the 1955 season, 13 of 16 teams fielded an African-American player. Future Hall of Famers like Brooks Robinson, Harmon Killebrew, Roberto Clemente, and Sandy Koufax all made their debuts this year. 1956: Don Larsen's perfect game Jim McIsaac // Getty Images 1956: Don ...
Then ’56 when Sister Angeles let us watch the first three innings during my favorite school period, lunch, and then the end ofDon Larsen‘s perfect game. Being a Dodgers fan was fun in the fifties. They were the underdogs of autumn in the big city against the we like white Yankees of...
At the start of the 1955 season, 13 of 16 teams fielded an African-American player. Future Hall of Famers like Brooks Robinson, Harmon Killebrew, Roberto Clemente, and Sandy Koufax all made their debuts this year. 1956: Don Larsen's perfect game Jim McIsaac // Getty Images 1956: Don ...