{"id":1233,"date":"2020-01-03T04:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:32:56","slug":"don-larsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1233","title":{"rendered":"Don Larsen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4b05607200c-200wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12927\" title=\"Perfect yankee\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahhh the great Yankee &#8211; only man to pitch a no hitter &#8211; in fact a perfect game &#8211; in a World Series. And he had a fine record with the Yankees (but not with other teams!), 45-24. The two short videos below tell the story. I&#8217;d read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Perfect-Yankee-Incredible-Greatest-Baseball-ebook\/dp\/B007FH3PKS\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1578027061&amp;sr=8-2\">his autobiography<\/a> a number of years ago &#8211; fabulous book for any baseball fan- so knew he&#8217;d done quite a bit of drinking the night before the perfect game. He didn&#8217;t expect to be in the game!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Larsen was a nice guy, modest about his success, and very popular. His last appearance at a Yankee Old Timers game was last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I66CUlQqsJE\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s Yankee announcer Michael Kay talking about Larsen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_r63SMtb8-E\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahhh the great Yankee &#8211; only man to pitch a no hitter &#8211; in fact a perfect game &#8211; in a World Series. And he had a fine record with the Yankees (but not with other teams!), 45-24. The two short videos below tell the story. I&#8217;d read his autobiography a number of years ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12928,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/12928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}