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THE HARTFORD COUUNT. TJay, Oct. 9. 1954 17 Big Don Larsen Hurls Perfect Game With Malice Toward None L)i I By BILL LEE Sports Editor Don Larsen Is Known Yankees Triumph 2-0 On Greatest Pitching In Baseball's History Iff mrmm For Hitting KTEW YORK, Oct 8 Don Larsen had just pitched the first no-hit game in World Series records, the first perfect game, for that matter. Not a man had reached first base.

Larsen, un-believeably, had retired 27 men in unbroken order. From the fifth inning through the eighth, a man with a Bronx accent had repeated over and over again one short sentence. "This is fantastic," he kept saying. In the eighth inning, another man asked him to shut up. NEW YORK.

Oct. 8 (B-Who i vy- Ijl vVi fY -W 1 is Don Larsen? What sort of a person is he? How good a pitch (Continued from Page 1) er? Where was he born and raised? What was his previous lest he jinx the Yankee pitcher. The Bronx man clammed up past, this one did the same job by sneaking into the stands at outstanding achievement? All of a sudden the entire baseball world has become excited over this tall, strapping about 300 feet. Mantle himself said he swung unm Larsen had whizzed a last Dall oy Dale Mitchell for the third strike and the 27th out. Then he screamed over and over another ejaculation.

"A 'poifecf game: A "poifecf game." In the press box, an elderly Japanese newspaperman who arranged the Yankee tour of the orient last fall and is doing the at a breaking pitch that caught b-4 nghthander who today created history by becoming the first pitcher ever to hurl a per- same this year with the Dodgers shook his head and uttered one him by surprise. Felt Good "I thought, with the count two and two, he was going to cross me up with a fast ball," Mantle expressive word. "Amazing," he exclaimed. "Amazing." rect world benes game retiring all 27 batters in order. Probably the best description Two minutes later, a hundred newspapermen and seemingly twice that many professional mad men with cameras -were turn-4 or Don iarsen as a big league said.

"I don't know how I hit tng the Yankee clubhouse into a bedlam of noise. pitcner, prior to this season, can be gleaned from a line- un Calmest man in the spacious, handsomely appointed locker the low curve as well as I did, but it felt good when I hit it." der his name in baseball's reg room was the man all the fuss was about, Don Larsen, who had been backed against his locker to pose for the frantically shout The home run, described by ister. It reads: Outstanding achievement ing photographers, whose flashing bulbs were popping a hundred a minute. "Did you realize you had it going? "I started realizing it about the seventh inning," Larsen said SAYS SAL TO DOX, 'IT WAS PERFECT: Sal Maglie of Dodgers, who recently pitched a no-hitter himself as his mates struggled to clinch the National League pennant, drapes an arm around shoulder of Yankees' Don Larsen as he congratulates him in Yankees' dressing room on his perfect game in yesterday's World Series game. Sal lost, 2-0 to Don's perfect game, first ever in World Series history.

Mag lie gave up only five hits (AP Wirephoto). calmly. I was thinking about it, sure. "Did you know it was a perfect game? "No, I didn't realize that. It didn't occur to me that I hadn't walked anybody or that nobody had reached first base.

established major league record for most consecutive hits by a pitcher (7)-July 24, 28, 31 and Aug. 5, 1953." That just about sums up Larsen's rating among big league pitchers. He was regarded as a better hitter than pitcher. Only three years ago; in a season during which he lost 12 of 19 decisions with the St. Louis Browns, Marty Marion, then manager of the club, gave him a brief trial in the outfield.

For a time it seemed he you know you never went to 3 balls on any hitter ex cept Reese the first inning? "No, I didn't know that." ft A)iS "Ever come close to pitching a no-hitter before, this one?" Larsen was asked in the bedlam of noise. "Yeah, I almost had one against the Yankees when I pitched for Baltimore." Larsen said laconially. "Carey broke it up on me in the eighth inning." "Were you throwing mostly curves?" "No," Larsen said. "Sliders, my slider breaks a little more." should have stayed there because the very next year, after the Browns' franchise was transferred to Baltimore, big What it meant Branca knew. A Brooklyn pitcher whose big One dramatic moment followed another as Larsen mastered Maglie jn one of the most titanic pitching duels the World Series has known.

Maglie matched Larsen by retiring the first 11 men in order. Then, with two out in the fourth and two strikes on Mantle, Mickey whipped his bat around on a low breaking pitch and arched into the stands near the right field foul line. The Dodgers had shifted their defense to the second base side, leaving Mantle all of third base and left field. Mantle made' the first hit and run of the ball game by utilizing less a a foot of fair territory in the opposite field. Worst For Sal Starting the Yankee fifth, Enos Slaughter worked Maglie for one of the two bases on balls the old righthander gave up.

Martin forced Slaughter trying to sacrifice, with Maglie himself making the play to second base. Then McDougald slashed a rifle shot toward shortstop for an almost certain hit, but Pee Wee Reese leaped up to knock the ball down spectacularly, catch its rebound out of the air and throw to Gil Hodges to double Martin off first. The sixth was Maglie's worst inning. Carey led off with a 6ingla and was bunted down by Larsen. Bauer drove Carey home with a single to left that Amoros bobbled, but the run would have scored in any case.

Collins sent Bauer racing to third with a single to right before Gil Hodges gloved Mantle's hot shot near the bag to retire Mickey and then throw to Campanella, who worked with Jackie Robinson to get Bauer in a run down for the third out. Except for that sixth inning, Maglie pitched almost as good a game as Larsen. Robinson almost tore Andy Carey's hands off with a second inning shot that bounced straight off Carey's glove into McDougald's hands. Carey said afterward, "Robinson hit the hell out of that ball." In the fifth, Mantle robbed Hodges with a tremendous running catch and the next batter, Sandy Amoros, hit one into the stands so close to the right field foul line that the 64,519 onlookers held their breath until umpires Runge and Soar simultaneously made the foul sign. Jackie Robinson, leading off the eichth of the tensest ball Don dropped 21 of 24 decisions game fate has not been happy, Ralph Branca, pushed close to some as one that would have been a single in Ebbets Field, was enough to win behind Larsen's perfection.

So was the run the Yankees worked around in the old-fashioned manner in the sixth, which, as it turned out, was the only inning in which the Yankees got a man beyond second base, save, of course, for the relatively puny homer propelled by Mantle. With Larsen overcoming the pitching genius of Maglie, who was trying in vain to repeat his victory over the Yankees in the opening game last Wednesday, the Yankees concluded the three-game series set with a sweep that left the staggered Brooks one game short of disaster despite the Dodgers' feat of winning the first two played last week at Ebbets Field. Back To Brooklyn Now the Dodgers take their tormentors back to Brooklyn, where they need to win both games to repeat their world championship of a year ago. Stengel will pitch either Johnny Kucks or Bob Turley in the sixth game, with Tom Sturdivant and Whitey Ford, previous conquerors of the Flock, to work the seventh game, if by chance the Dodgers take the sixth, Brooklyn will start Gem La-bine, professional reliever, and pin their hopes on 27-game winner Don Newcombe in the decisive contest if Labine saves them in the sixth. Newcombe for the Orioles to become the Larsen and stuck out-his hand.

He had an awed expression on n( V) losingest pitcher in the majors. his face. Larsen looked up and grinned as he took Branca ex- Complex Deal "Thanks, Ealph," he smiled in quick recognition of an It wasn't until Larsen became a Yankee, in a complex deal enemy pitcher. It was as though the 225 pound athlete from San Diego appreciated Branca's visit more than the noisy hula- involving 18 players in Novecn baloo that surrounded him. ber of 1954, that he wound up a big league season with a better "I can't believe it yet," Branca muttered in a low voice.

know it haDDened but I haven't had time to take a deep ii. than .500 won-lost record. Even an 11-5 record this year failed Dream. "Do you remember what Casey said to you as you came to lift his lifetime percentage to a respectable figure. His four- year major league total is 30 victories and 40 defeats.

How does such a pitcher, ad mittedly no better than medi ocre throughout his career, sud "No," Larsen said. "Were you conscious of the tension on the bench in the late inning?" "Yeah," Larsen answered. "Sturdivant took a sleeping pill before he went to bed Saturday night at 10 o'clock, what did you do?" a writer asked. "I had a couple of beers and went to sleep at 12 o'clock the way I always do," Larsen replied. Photographers were fighting newsmen and writers were tugging and hauling with newsreel men and radio slaves with portable mikes in a struggle to get close to Larsen.

Tho rAher Yankees were walkin? around ths clubhouse in a denly come through with such an incredible pitching feat, a brilliant performance unmatched in 307 games through 52 World Series since 190S? was driven to ignominious cover "I'm sure I couldn't answer that," Larsen said. "All I know in the second inning of Friday second game at Brooklyn. The Dodgers, reduced now to YANKEE OWNERS HAPPY WITH LARSEN'S FEAT: And why shouldn't they be? Yankees' hurler Don Larsen is flanked in dressing room by club's co-owners, Dan Topping (left) and Del Webb, just after he had beaten Brooklyn, 2-0, in first perfect pitching performance in World Series history (AP Wirephoto). state of disbelief. "I was in the bullpen," Whitey Ford was saying, "And I didn't even dare look." "This is a once in a lifetime and a half," another Yankee desperate hope, must depend on is I always could tnrow nara.

All I needed was control and I've been improving my control steadily through the years. continuine their Ebbets field mastery of the Yankees. They have knocked off the New York said. LAST TIME OUT, HE WAS CHASED team five straight World Series Ernie Shore Adds Praise games the past two years at Jackie Robinson oushed through the mob and stood waiting Ebbets Field, while the Bombers have mastered the Flatbush if i -fj for television interviewers to get near enough to Larsen to ex "As for today," the 27-year-old Californian said, "I had a hunch I'd pitch a good game but I never dreamed anything like this. I felt good right from the start.

I knew I had it. Even at the end I was not tired a bit I could still get the ball where I wanted to. Rubbery Legs "But in the ninth, I was so i tend his personal congratulations. It was KODinson wno naa club in six of the last 7 series mm closest to eettinur a hit off Larsen. His screaming liner in the second had caromed off Andy Carey's glove straight into the For Larsen games played at Yankee Sta dium.

Only 97 Pitches hands of Gil McDoueald. who threw Kobinson out Dy a sniicakipst irmssible marein. WINSTON-SALEM, N. Oct. Larsen delivered exactly 97 pitches in fashioning the seventh perfect game in 76 years of re nervous, I almost fell down out This man who had pitched the first perfect World Series game in more than a half century had been the Yankees' starting second game pitcher in Brooklyn Friday and had been driven to the showers before he could get two men out in the second in- corded baseball history.

there on the mound. My legs were rubbery and my fingers didn't feel like they were on my hand. I said to myself, 'Please In the long, long ago, two 8 (J Ernie Shore, one of the handful of men who have pitched a perfect baseball game, said "I never saw a cleaner game" than Don Larsen's perfect performance in the World "You must have felt better-today than you did in Brooklyn pitchers named Lee and Ward put together perfect major help me out, somebody. league games in the 1880 sea Coach Jim Turner, who has much to do with Larsen's im son. The great Cy Young threw one in 1904, Addie Joss had one provement, tried to explain Series today.

in 1908 and Ernie Shore, coming Don pitching masterpiece. Shore, now sheriff of Forsyth into the game from the Red Sox bullpen in relief of Babe Ruth after the Babe had been heaved County, N. saw every play "He could get any pitch he threw over," he said. "He had a good curve, slider, change and of today's series game on a tele game anybody had ever looked at. stepped out of the box and rubbed dirt out of his eyes.

The crowd booed and then cheered when Robinson was thrown out, forgetting that the Dodgers were much alive in a 2 to 0 ball game that may turn out to be the key to the 1956 World Series. Rnars Ovation When Larsen came to bat in the eighth, the crowd stood and roared an ovation. Then, when Maglie came off the field after striking out the last three Yankee batters of the game in the eighth, the crowd rose again and made the welkin ring for the pitcher who had himself pitched a no-hitter against the Pirates in the closing bid on which the Dodgers won the National League pennant. Even without the perfection that Larsen gave it, this ball game would have to rank with the most exciting ever played in the World Series. Both sides made amazing defensive plays behind their pitchers, including a wonderful catch by Duke Sni for protesting a pitch to the urn -Friday," someone suggested.

"Yeah, I did," Larsen agreed. "I don't know what it was, but I felt better. Maybe being in our own park made the difference. They asked Don wliere he was born, whether he was in the service, were his parents living, whether he was married, how many brothers and sisters he had, how come he had changed his pitching style a few weeks ago to deliver the ball without a wind-up or a stretch. Larsen said he had been born in Michigan City.

but lived in San Diego, where his dad works in a clothing store. His father used to coach American Legion and other kid teams but hadn't been much of an athlete himself. He was in the Army after World War II and had been stationed in Hawaii. "What were you, a private?" "I made corporal," Larsen said, uttering the first boastful words of the interview. his fast ball burst upon the hit vision set in his office.

pire, got 27 men out in order ters. He was ahead of all the "Wonderfully pitched," Shore in 1917, when most people were hitters. He's always known how concerned more with World War said. "That Larsen deserves to pitch but it was consistency I than with baseball. lot of credit.

I don't believe he that he lacked. He was our best But no one before today had pitcher in September. His last was ever in a hole." ever pitched one of these dream four games all were four-hitters, Shore estimated that the games in the World benes. you know. Three men have been one hit Yankee hurler probably pitched Manager Casey Stengel at away from perfect.

Ed Ruel- O'MALLEY SALVAGES SOUVENIR: His Dodgers couldn't get a hit off New York Yankees' hurler Don Larsen in yesterday's World Series game but here Brooklyn prexy, Walter O'Malley. manages to get an autographed hall from Don. O'Malley went to Yankees' dressing room to congratulate Larsen (AP Wirephoto). tempted to explain Larsen's new "Who was your pitching hero when you were a boy?" A man bach had a one-hitter for the more balls (o againsi tne Dodgers in today's 2-0 victory Cubs against the White Sox than he did that June 23, 1917, "Hitless Wonders' in the World for the Boston Red Sox against Series of 1906, 50 years ago Wednesday to the day. Two oth Washington.

Larsen was the second per ers came in more recent times, Larsen In Daze, Doesn't Believe It; der of Yogi Berra's sinking liner in the fourth. fect game Shore ever saw, counting his own. Only four other pitchers in modern times have turned in a Credits Prayers, Maters For Feat This is one that will never flawless game. Babe Ruth was forgotten by those who saw it. As one of the Yankees said in the clubhouse after the game, Bostons starter against me Senators in the 1917 game.

After By DON LARSEN (A Told to the United Press) NEW YORK. Oct. 8 (UP)- "Somebody may tie it but no a fourth ball was called to walk body will ever beat the Washington lead-off man, Imagine something like a per When the final out, a strike Ruth complained heatedly and found success. "The difference in Larsen, as I see it," he said, "is that he used to be too careful with his pitching. Today he had perfect control.

He threw three called balls to only one batter Pee Wee Reese in the first inning. That was the difference. When you got control you can pitch to the batters' weakness." Problem For Pilots Larsen, sometimes a problem for Stengel and the fellows who managed him previously, was born Aug. 7, 1929 at Michigan City, He now makes his home in San Diego, Calif. He started his professional career in 1947 with Aberdeen in the Northern League.

Except for 1948 when he won 17 and lost 11 at Aberdeen, Larsen never won more than a half dozen games in four years in the minors. While with Globe-Miami in the Arizona-Texas League in 1949, his arm went dead and he almost quit the game. After two years in the Army, was thrown out. Shore came in out of pinch-hitter Dale Mitchell was made, Yogi Berra raced out fect game happening to me? It can't be true. Any minute now I expect the alarm clock to ring and someone to say, "Okay, Lar without benefit of a warm-up.

and threw his arms and legs On Shore's first pitch the run around Larsen, like a boy sen, it time to get up." ner on first was thrown out trying to steal. Shore retired the next 2G men as the Red Sox My legs are still rubbery all over and I'm so nervous and ex climbing a clothes pole. When somebody asked Yogi if he realized what he was doing, Berra said, "Yeah, I was glad for him." won, 4-0. cited I don't even know what about any perfect game. All I was mainly concerned about was just winning the game.

I was especially anxious to make up for that lousy start I had against Brooklyn You know, the game in which I was six runs ahead and then was taken out in the second inning. Casey Stengel has had a lot of faith in me this season he sided "with me when others didn't and I just wanted to show him that his confidence wasn't misplaced. Anyway, I hope my Mom out in San Diego was watching the game on television. I think she was. Mom always tells me to be careful about how I pitch to Ted Williams.

Ted wasn't swinging against me out there today but you know something? In that ninth inning, every one of those day it is. asked. "I never thought much about baseball when I was a kid," the hero answered. "Why did you change io the style of not winding up or taking a stretch before delivering the ball?" "I started doing it our last trip to Boston. That Red Sox coach, Del Baker, is pretty sharp and I think he was stealing my pitches and flashing them to the batter.

I got the idea I could stop him by doing this." "Any other reason?" "WelL I thought it might fool the hitters a little, too," Larsen said. HE JUST IMPROVED THAT'S ALL The persistent inquisitors pressed Larsen for the answer to his pitching renaissance. Why had he suddenly become effective in the late stages of the 1956 season? How come he had been mediocre up to the time he had won his last four games without giving more than four hits in any of them? "I don't know," Larsen said, shaking his head. "I started out all right and then suddenly I became a pitcher who couldn't go more than six or seven innings. I don't know why it became any different.

I do everything the same, living habits, pitching and everything else. "What's your sister's name?" "Charlotte," Larsen started to answer. Then "No, my sister's name is Joyce." Nobody asked him whether Charlotte might be his girl's name or even whether he has a girl. They asked him just about everything else. He isn't married.

Sitting alone across the room, Andy Carey, unattended by inquisitive reporters, was looking vaguely into his locker. A man asked him if it ever struck him during the game that he had once broken up a no-hitter on Larsen. "No." Andy said. "All I was thinking about was trying to get the side out." "This time, you didn't take anything away from Larsen, you helped get him this no-hitter." someone said to Carey. The third baseman nodded, remembering his stabbing stop of the shot by Robinson that would have been a screeching base hit 99 times out of a hundred, and the other one he had grabbed on Gil Hodges' line drive in the eighth.

These, a towering smash into loft center field by Hodges in the fifth and a near homer by Amoros that was barely louled had been the closest things to spoiling the perfection of Larsen's unprecedented effort. SALEM. Ore. Oct. 8 fl-Floyd Until today, the only thing I So were a few million base one by Claude Passeau of the Chicago Cubs against the Detroit Tigers in the war-shattered World Series of 1945 and Floyd Bevan, who had the Dodgers hitless with two out in the ninth in 1947 at Ebbets.

Field. Cookie Lavagetto broke that one up and the Dodgers went on to beat the Yankees and ruin Bevan permanently. The latter, however, was a far cry from the flawlessness of Larsen's effort today. Larsen got every batter. Bevan lost no fewer than ten of the Dodgers on the dreaded base on balls.

Last For PinelU An hour after the game, Babe Pinelli, the National League umpire who worked behind the plate, came into the Yankees' dressing room and, with tears in his eyes, congratulated Larsen, the American League pitcher who had just thrown a no-hit, no-run, no-man-reach-first-base in the final game Pinelli will ever work behind the plate. The National League arbiter had given advance notice that this is his last go-around at umpiring- Pinelli told Larsen he had pitched an unforgettable game and the 26-year-old Yankee pitcher thanked the umpire for "calling a perfect game." (Bill) Bevens, who came with ever knew about a perfect game ball fans all over the world. in one out of pitching a no-hit is tnat I read about it some ter in the 1947 World Series, where in a record book. The last Vein Bickford Last today applauded Don Larsen's one was back in 1922, they tell me, and I didn't think I'd ever no-hit, no-run game. To No-Hit Dodgers It was wonderful, said Bev see one, much less pitch one.

NEW YORK, Oct 8 in-Don ens after watching Larsen's feat it this story doesn read alto See DON, Page 18 on television. Larsen's no-hitter against the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World gether right, it's only because I still can't think straight. Honest Bevens. also a Yankee, had Series today was the first against ly, in that last inning there I Official Box Score a Brooklyn team in more than was so keyed up about the whole Dodger batters I faced looked two out in the ninth inning against the Dodgers in the 1947 Series before pinch hitter Cookie Lavagetto rapped a six years, or more than 1,000 thing I almost fell down. games.

like Williams to me. One Bad Pitch 'Here Goe ibr rbl 4 0 0 1 The last pitcner to stop the double off the richt field wall Everything is still a little hazv power-hitting Brooks without a NEW YORK, Oct. 8 W-Catch- III that, coupled with earlier walks, 7Do Rave Brooklyn a 3-2 victory. but I remember striking out pinch hitter Dale Mitchell on a satety was right hander Vent er Yogi Berra said pitcher Don 1 0 1 0 0 i Bevens had walked 10. fast ball for the final out.

Just Bickford of the Boston Braves in a night game on Aug. 11, 1950. before I threw the ball I said to Larsen made only one bad pitch in his perfect no-hit no-run victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers The Braves won the game, 7-0. .14 0 0 0 2 0 0 110 0 0 10 0 myself, "Well, here goes noth ing. today in the fifth World Series I'm not what you call a real game.

2fi 2 TJ7 0 2 ill a rbl praying man but once out there. "That was the pitch to Gil NEW YORK Bauer, if Collins, lb Mantle, cf Berra. Slaughter. If Martin. 2h McDougald, it Carey, 3b Larsen, Totals BROOKLYN Gilliam, 2b Hepse, Snider, cf Robinson, Hodges, lb Amnrtu, If Furlllo.

rf Campanella, Ma Rile, -Mitchell Totals NEW YORK A Hr. Mantle: s. the eighth or ninth, I think it Hodges in the fifth inning," the vnnf ntnv'T iiivk Tn SAV A WORD Yankee catcher said. Hodges was. I said to myself, "Help me out somebody." hit it to deep left center and it "Larsen pitched a lot better game than I did," said Bevens, now a salesman for a trucking firm.

Asked if he had ever met Larsen, Bevens said: "No, but as long as he's a Yankee, I'm for him." Bevens developed a sore arm in the 1948 season, and drifted to the minors and finally out of baseball. But another Bevens is on the way. His 14-year-old son, Danny, compiled a 16-1 record, pitching in a boys' league here this year. And I had plenty of hem. too.

took a great running catch by Mickey Mantle to grab it. That catch Mickey Mantle made on Gil Hodges' long liner in the "It was a slider which hung when they hang, its tilth saved my bacon. And Andy Carey and Gil McDougald teamed up to null me out of a 27 0 24 10 0 0 ooo ini ortx-2 List Of Baseball's Perfect Games NEW YORK, Oct. 8 CP) Don Larsen of the Yankees today became the seventh pitcher in major league baseball history to pitch a perfect game. The other six accomplished it during the regular season.

Larsen's perfect performance was the first in a World Series game. The list: Year Pitcher Club and Date Score 1880 J. L. Richmond, Worcester vs. Cleve.

NL, June 12 1-0 John M. Ward, Providence vs. Buffalo, NL, June 17 5-0 1904 Denton T. Young, Boston vs. Philadelphia AL, May 5 3-0 1908 Adrian C.

Joss, Cleveland vs. Chicago AL, Oct. 2 1-0 1917 x-E. G. Shore, Boston vs.

Washington AL, June 23 4-0 1922 C. C. Robertson, Chicago vs. Detroit AL, April 30 2-0 1956 Don Larsen. New York AL vs.

Brooklyn NL. Oct. 8 2-0 Shore's performance in this game is now classified as a perfect game. Babe Ruth started as the Boston pitcher and was removed by Umpire Owens after giving up a base on balls to the first batter, who was retired trying to steal second base. Shore than retired the next 26 batters in Larsen: dp.

Reese Now Yogi Berra came by, towel in hand, on the way to the ihower. All he could do was shake his head in awed admiration. "How can you figure this baseball?" anotiier Yankee player said to Berra. "This guy lts less than two innings one day and three days later he pitches a perfect game in the World Series." Somebody said to Berra that Larsen had told him Yogi had not said a word to him during the marvelous pitching performance. "That's right, I didn't say anything to him." Berra nodded.

After more than an hour of weary cross-examination, Larsen stood up and tried to escape. "O.K. if I take a shower now?" he asked. "Can you wait just a minute 'til we get this tape job done?" a radio man said brashly. "All right," Lansen said, sitting down again.

A half hour later, the pitcher was still pinned against the wall. Atter all, how many times does a pitcher retire 27 batters in a row in a World Series game? Sports Air hole when they robbed Jackie Robinson of a base hit in the second. The tightest squeeze I had was in the fifth on that ball Sandy Amoros hit. I was plenty lucky on that one. I thought it would be a homer and tie the game up but it curved foul, and was I tickled.

Along about the sixth or seventh I realized I had a nc-hitter but I never seriously thought and Hodges; Hodgca, Campanella, Robinson, Campanella and Robinson; left, Rrooklyn IN) 0, New York (A) bb. MaRMe 2, (Slaughter. McDougald); so, Larsen 7 fOllliam, Reese. Hnrigea. Campanella.

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a. 64 MS (paid) a -Mitchell called out on atrike lor Ma-lit In 8th. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 8 (UP) Eddie Mulligan, who played shortstop for the Chicago White Sox in 1922 on the day that Charles Robertson pitched his perfect game against Detroit, said today he was "thrilled" to see Don Larsen of the Yankees duplicate the feat on television.

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