-Perfect captures our hearts as it carries us back to the golden age of baseball and the more innocent world of the 1950s.---Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author of The Bully Pulpit
On October 8, 1956, New York Yankees pitcher Don Larsen took the mound for game five of the World Series against the rival Brooklyn Dodgers. In an improbable performance that the New York Times called -the greatest moment in the history of the Fall Classic, - Larsen, an otherwise mediocre journeyman pitcher, retired twenty-seven straight Dodger batters to...