The Perfect Yankee

by Larsen, Don; Shaw, Mark

• ISBN13: 9781571670434
• ISBN10: 1571670432
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-09-01
• Publisher: Sagamore Pub Llc

Summary

By all accounts, the perfect game pitched by New York Yankee right-hander Don Larsen in the 1956 World Series qualifies as a true miracle. No one knows why it happened, or why an unlikely baseball player such as Don Larsen was the one who tossed it. In The Perfect Yankee, Larsen and co-author Mark Shaw describe for the first time the facts surrounding one of the most famous games in baseball history.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	v	(3)
Foreword	viii	(3)
Author's note	xi	(4)
Introduction	xv	(6)
Prologue	xxi
1 The 1956 Dodgers	1	(6)
2 The 1956 Yankees	7	(12)
3 1956 World Series	19	(8)
4 Getting Ready for a Miracle	27	(10)
5 Inning #1	37	(8)
6 Inning #2	45	(6)
7 Inning #2--Yankees	51	(6)
8 Inning #3	57	(6)
9 Inning #4--Dodgers	63	(6)
10 Inning #4-Yankees	69	(8)
11 Gooney Bird	77	(14)
12 Yankee Pinstripes	91	(12)
13 Inning #5	103	(12)
14 The Perfect Game Club	115	(16)
15 Inning #6--Dodgers	131	(6)
16 Inning #6--Yankees	137	(6)
17 The Men in Blue	143	(10)
18 Inning #7--Dodgers	153	(6)
19 Inning #7--Yankees	159	(6)
20 Inning #8--Dodgers	165	(8)
21 Inning #8--Yankees	173	(4)
22 The Miracle Ninth	177	(14)
23 Pandemonium	191	(16)
24 The 9th of October	207	(10)
25 Epilogue	217	(16)
Postscript	233	(10)
Appendices	243