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‘GOOFY THINGS HAPPEN’

Don Larsen, Pitcher Who Threw Perfect Game in World Series, Dead at 90

On Oct. 8, 1956, the Yankee’s otherwise unexceptional career took a legendary turn.

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Adam Hunger

By Tom Sykes

Don Larsen, the only pitcher to throw a perfect game in World Series history, died Wednesday in Hayden Lake, Idaho, at the age of 90. He had been treated for esophageal cancer. Larsen’s record-breaking moment came on the afternoon of Oct. 8, 1956, at the original Yankee Stadium when the batters in a Brooklyn Dodgers lineup with four future Hall of Famers came to the plate, and all returned to the dugout without a hit, a walk, or an error by a Yankees fielder. Larsen himself was nonchalant about the achievement, saying: “Goofy things happen.”

Read it at The New York Times

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