Don Larsen and Yogi Berra in 2012. What Larsen, who turned 87 in August, and Berra accomplished that day has linked forever two players from opposite ends of the baseball spectrum. One was a Hall ...
I was very surprised," Larsen said. "I looked at that damn thing and I said, ‘Oh geez. Don ... of baseball’s most signature moments ensued: Berra leaped into Larsen’s arms. "When Yogi ...
As a player, Yogi Berra carried a public image as a lovable, cuddly figure with a propensity for malapropisms along with one of the most potent clutch bats in ... catching Don Larsen's perfect ...
It said that Don Larsen was going to be on the premises that day signing autographs. “Hey, Don Larsen will be here today,” I said to Grant, an exuberantly diehard New York Yankees fan.
In the fifth game of the 1956 World Series, after retiring the Brooklyn Dodgers in order for the seventh consecutive inning, With the no-hitter completed, Yogi Berra leaps into Don Larsen's arms.
In the park-like serenity of Gate of Heaven Cemetery in East Hanover, owned and operated by the Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of Newark, lies Lawrence "Yogi" Berra — one of baseball's ...
Larsen, 90, died Wednesday in hospice in Hayden, Idaho, of esophageal cancer, a party guy to the end who achieved baseball ... to the Bronx. Yogi Berra, left, Sal Maglie and Don Larsen in Sept.
Don Larsen, the journeyman pitcher who reached the heights of baseball glory when he threw a perfect game in 1956 with the New York Yankees for the only no-hitter in World Series history, died on ...
Their October showdowns have produced some of the game’s most memorable moments, from Don Larsen’s perfect game ... by a rookie catcher named Yogi Berra. But Game 4 was the most memorable ...