Don Larsen was an American pitcher who played in Major League Baseball from 1953 to 1967 for seven different clubs, among them the St. Louis Browns, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and San Francisco Giants. He is remembered for a single afternoon: on October 8, 1956, pitching for the Yankees in Game 5 of the World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers, he threw a perfect game, which remains the only perfect game and the only solo no-hitter in World Series history. The performance earned him the World Series Most Valuable Player Award and the Babe Ruth Award for the 1956 postseason. He was born in Michigan City, Indiana, grew up in San Diego, and died in 2020.
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