PERFECT YANKEE PA

by LARSEN,DON

• ISBN13: 9781613210772
• ISBN10: 1613210779
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2012-04-17
• Publisher: FRWHEEL

Summary

It was one perfect moment, one singular feat unparalleled in thehalf a century of baseball that followed. It was Game 5 of the 1956World Series. In an age when nobody spat in anyone's face, strikeswere called only on the field, and New York was baseball's battlefield,Don Larsen pitched the only no-hitter ever recorded in theWorld Series. Joe DiMaggio called it the best-pitched game heever saw as a player or spectator. Yogi Berra said he felt like a kidon Christmas morning. And Mickey Mantle said, For one day,Don Larsen was the greatest pitcher in baseball history. Now readers can relive that moment of greatness in the newly revisededition of The Perfect Yankee. With a deft pen and an announcer'senthusiasm, Larsen walks readers through each inningof that miraculous game. A must-read for any baseball fan.

Author Biography

Mark Shaw, the author of more than twenty books, was a criminal defense attorney before becoming a television legal analyst for Good Morning America. He went on to correctly predict the outcomes of both the Mike Tyson and O. J. Simpson trials for, among others, CNN, ABC, and ESPN. He wrote several columns analyzing the Tyson case for USA Today. In 2004, he analyzed the Kobe Bryant case for ESPN and USAToday.com. He lives in Superior, Colorado.