Remembering the 62nd Anniversary of Don Larsen’s Perfect Game!

The Competition

The heat of the competition amid the Yankees and the Dodgers—and, for years, the “other” New York team, the Giants—makes many of today’s over-hyped games rivalries feel monotonous.

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In the year 1950s alone, the Yankees won six World Series (three versus Brooklyn, one upon the Giants). Brooklyn acquired one (against the Yankees); the Giants won entirety in 1954—one of the few years that neither the Yanks nor the Dodgers made it to the Fall Classic. Then, was the environment in which Don Larsen secured the heap on that fall heyday six decades past. Game 5 of the 1956 Series was bounteous than a baseball contest; which was another chapter in a long, storied struggle between two teams loaded with some of the best players the game has ever seen.

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