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Perfect Game. There was brief hope as the week began. Crafty Sal Maglie was rested and ready. The Yanks were gambling on Don Larsen. a lighthearted playboy noted most for spectacular achievements such as wrapping his car around a Florida telephone pole during spring training. In the second game, he had lasted less than two innings...
...Second Game was a Yankee debacle. Starting Pitcher Don Larsen went into the second inning six runs in front, thanks to Berra's grand-slam home run. Incredibly, the big lead was not enough. The Dodgers' old men began to rattle hits all over the ballpark, capped by Duke Snider's three-run homer. Before the inning was over Brooklyn, too, had six runs and Larsen was taking a shower. Don Newcombe, the Dodgers' 27-game winner who seems constitutionally incapable of winning in the series, failed again, unhappily slouched off the field under the Yankees...
Twenty-seven year-old Don Larsen, Yankee right-hander, made the leap from mediocrity to immortality in a little over two hours yesterday, as he pitched the first perfect no-hit, no-run game in World Series history. The Yankees beat the Dodgers, 2-0, to give the Yankees a one-game edge in the series...
Walking none, and backed by flawless support by his teammates, Larsen struck out seven. Only once did he reach a count of three balls, against PeeWee Reese, whom he struck...
...ninth inning, with the knowledge of his impending feat running through the crowd of 64,519 like an electric current, Larsen got Carl Furillo on a fly, Roy Campanella on a grounder, and ended with a flourish by striking out pinch hitter Dale Mitchell...