Berra, Larsen, Costas remember perfect game

Yogi Berra and Don Larsen join Bob Costas to remember the 1956 World Series and Larsen's perfect game against the Dodgers in game 5
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[@ram718bkny]

You’re with Yogi and the rest to the gang. RIP Don Larsen. 😔😔😔

[@24RulezJG]

R.I.P Don Larsen. 😰😭

[@STXRBOY999]

RIP DON LARSEN - 01/01/2020

[@kenbaudoin1]

Yogi is a hall of famer he called the pitches

[@KevinMiller-xn5vu]

Larsen never shook him off once.

[@RayRay-zt7bj]

R.I.P. Yogi, and now Don.

[@stephenfricke9298]

Amazing. Never a no hitter in the world series. And Yogi caught a perfect game 27 up 27 down

[@TrentSherrill]

Priceless video

[@n.y.c.freddy]

**THANK YOU SO MUCH! (For uploading this!)

[@supermariovincent2672]

R.I.P

[@itzjay4462]

RIP to both of them

[@jballin874]

RIP

[@BGTuyau]

It wasn't over till it was over -but why was the clip of the actual game cut out of this video?

[@fq2237]

Sleep easy legend

[@bretmoutaw9275]

RIP Mr. Larsen

[@rogersacco4624]

Mickey's catch in that game !

[@thedude3065]

brilliance

[@Pronzini1]

Larsen seems like a real nice guy too

[@ScienceTalkwithJimMassa]

Let's not forget the excellent catch by Mickey of Gil Hodges drive to death valley that preserved the perfect game. Mantle has called that his most important catch of his career.

[@73Trident]

I think it's the greatest catch in World Series history. Mick was great that in the field and at bat.

[@kevinmiller6324]

@@73Trident Doubt DiMaggio would have caught it had he still been playing.

[@gracedagostino5231]

@@kevinmiller6324 Why do you doubt it? DiMaggio was a far better outfielder than Mantle.

[@kevinmiller6324]

@@73Trident I respectfully disagree on that; Willie Mays' catch off Vic Wertz in the first game of the 1954 World Series clearly trumps Mantle's catch, and turned the tide of that World Series in the Giants favor.

[@kevinmiller6380]

And now Don Larsen drew some company as the Houston Astros used four pitchers to pitch a combined no hitter against the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 4 of the 2022 World Series (11-2). Sadly, Larsen and Yogi Berra are no longer with us.

[@GLee-oe3op]

I’d say Costas is just as legendary now

[@robbiefrantz8170]

I remember coming out of elementary school (5th grade) and a friend said to me "Don Larsen threw a perfect game for the Yankees today." Though, at 10 years old, in the fall of 1956, I loved baseball and had heard of pitchers pitching no-hitters, I, like Don Larsen, didn't know what a perfect game was. I learned.

[@miked2593]

i just wanna watch that game (full) right now.

[@VILJL]

Don Larsen is celebrating his 90th birthday today (August 7, 2019) --- Don James Larsen (born August 7, 1929) is an American retired Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher. During a 15-year MLB career, he pitched from 1953 to 1967 for seven different teams. Larsen pitched for the St. Louis Browns / Baltimore Orioles (1953-54; 1965), New York Yankees (1955-59), Kansas City Athletics (1960-1961), Chicago White Sox (1961), San Francisco Giants (1962-64), Houston Colt .45's / Houston Astros (1964-65), and Chicago Cubs (1967). Larsen pitched the sixth perfect game in MLB history, doing so in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series. It is the only no-hitter and perfect game in World Series history and is one of only two no hitters in MLB postseason history (the other Roy Halladay's in 2010). He won the World Series Most Valuable Player Award and Babe Ruth Award in recognition of his 1956 postseason.

[@joelkanoff3340]

Happy to say I was 9 years old and was at the Perfect game in 1956. I met Don Larsen on 3 separate Occasions. He was walking alone after a game at the original Yankee Stadium in the 60's when he played for the White Soxs. At a card show in Asbury Park he signed a bunch of pictures, cards, balls and my program from the Perfect Game. The last time was in Manhattan in 2000 , I spotted him outside the Marriott Marquis hotel. I asked to take a picture with him and he says "What do you want a picture with me for" and I tell him I was at the Perfect Game. Of course he posed for the picture. Only fond memories of Don Larsen.

[@davidr5961]

Early in the game, Jackie Robinson hit a shot down to third base; the ball rococheyed off Andy Carey, to Gil McDougald , who just got Robinson on the play. and of course Mantle's great catch later in the game as well.

[@kevinmiller6380]

DAVID R-I once read where a younger Robinson would have beaten the throw with ease.

[@lgkerpertg7410]

wtf why did you cut out the tape of the game?

[@MrCubFan415]

Lgker Pertg Here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKC9hp2Zjs9sa80

[@PhlintheartGloomgold]

Larsen is the only player in that game that's still alive.

[@MrT8599]

Not anymore

[@robertmarshall7903]

@@MrT8599 sad but true underrated legend

[@kevinmiller1985]

How bizarre is it that both Larsen & Berra, the last two surviving members of that game, would both die @ the age of 90, four months after reaching that milestone. Whitey Ford is still alive @ 91, but did not come into the game.

[@billhaywood3503]

@@kevinmiller1985 whitey not any more :(

[@kevinmiller6324]

Too bad they didn't show that clip.

[@kevinmiller1985]

Truer words were never spo ken, Yogi.

[@kevinmiller1985]

When this interview was co- nducted in 2007, there were still some players in that ga- me still living that have sinc- e passed on-Duke Snider, fo r one. Don Zimmer was still living, but he didn't play in th e game; neither did Sandy K- oufax, who was on that Broo klyn squad, even though he'- s.alive, too.

[@Guitar11player]

Why did you Media jerks blackout the footage?

[@howie9751]

Took out the commercials.

[@TommyType1]

My grandfather pitched the CG day before.

[@jktz122]

they had to win that game

[@kevinmiller1985]

To EPolecat-You took the w ords right out of my mouth; I was going to say that.

[@jackwillis6867]

The dumbest question ever asked , a reporter asked Don Larsen is this the best game you ever played?

[@kevinmiller6380]

Jack Willis-Actually the reporter asked that question of Stengel. Casey's answer? So far! Typical Casey Stengel quip. 😄😄😄😄😄😄

[@kevinmiller6324]

Larsen didn't even get out of the third inning of Game 7 of the 1957 World Series against the Braves.

[@howie9751]

You're point?

[@rollo131]

I know they had to give the World Series MVP award to Larsen, and that's fine, really. The perfect game was a special thing. I'll just point out that Yogi hit .360 with 3 homers and 10 RBI, and maybe deserves a shred of credit for catching the perfect game (and every other game in the series.) And that Larsen got knocked out in the second inning of his other start, a 13-8 Yankee loss in Game 2, allowing four runs and four walks. Most deserving of acclamation in the series? Absolutely. Most valuable? Nah.

[@nicholasr9892]

Yeah it's a shame because Yogi never won World Series MVP (though most of his WS rings as a player came before they had that award)

[@christiancox972]

i see where your coming from-- it's not exactly a hot take or anything. but your phrasing is pretty lame. you come off jilted and bitter.

[@pajamasflannel]

I'm looking at Yogi and I'm thinking "he looks like someone but whom?" Rudy Giulliani!

[@thatstutteringkid2891]

pajamasflannel not really 😂

[@tommcconville4270]

If Don Larsen was considered a journey men pitcher, he was one of the best journey men pitcher of all time. He proved it in 1956 by pitching a perfect game in the World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers. And he would have had more career wins had he played his entire career with the Yankees.

[@kevinmiller1985]

Had that game been played @ Ebbets Field instead of Y ankee Stadium, Hodges sho t probably goes into the left field stands for a.home run & Larsen.does not get a per fect game.

[@robertaxel]

That is one of the unique things about baseball. Two years earlier Willie Mays caught a long drive by Vic Wertz that would have been gone in just about any other park. The same game ended when Dusty Rhodes hit a pop fly home run, which was an out in any other park, and changed the whole complexion of the Series...

[@kevinmiller6324]

Larsen admits he thinks about his perfect game several times a day. Had I been in his shoes, I would too.

[@ThomasDeLello]

He was drunk the night before...