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MOMENTS: LARSEN'S PERFECT GAME

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With the 1956 World Series tied at 2 games each, the Yankees sent Don Larsen to the mound to pitch Game 5 against the mighty Brooklyn Dodgers at Yankee Stadium. The Dodgers lineup featured future Hall of Famers Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Duke Snider and Pee Wee Reese. Against this offensive juggernaut, Larsen performed like no pitcher has performed before or since on MLB's greatest stage - the World Series - by pitching a perfect game and catapulting the Yankees to a world championship in seven games.

Over the almost 150 years of Major League Baseball history and over 250,000 games played, there have been only 23 perfect games pitched (that is 0.000092 if you want to do the math). Larsen's perfecto tops them all.

Larsen had pinpoint control in the game and needed only 97 pitches to complete the game. There were a few close calls, with Mickey Mantle making a back-handed catch on the run in deep center field to rob Gil Hodges, and third baseman Andy Larsen deflecting a line drive to shortstop Gil McDougal, who threw out Jackie Robinson on a close play. But Larsen was magnificent, needing only the support of Mantle's fourth inning homer and a seventh inning insurance run. Larsen finished the game in style with a strikeout of one of the toughest hitters of that era to strike out.

To pay tribute to one of the best pitching performances of all time in the biggest of games, we have assembled and framed a Yankee jersey personally autographed by Don Larsen, to which he added the inscription "WS PG 10-5-56", and an authentic original ticket to the very game where Larsen accomplished this once-in-history feat.

Includes a certificate of authenticity from JSA.

Donated By Steve and Sheila Sutherland