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New York : New American Library, c2009.
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Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers remains the only no-hit game in World Series history. Drawing upon oral histories, contemporaneous articles, and dozens of interviews with commentators and players (including all of the surviving players for the Dodgers and Yankees), Lew Paper brings that extraordinary event to life with a pitch-by-pitch narrative that incorporates profiles of the 19 players who were on the field that day.
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LibraryThing member nmele
It's difficult, I think, to write a baseball book about the 1956 Dodgers and Yankees because so many of their names and histories are familiar: Jackie Robinson, Mickey Mantle, Pee Wee Reese, Yogi Berra and more. Lew Paper manages it by framing biographies of the players within Don Larsen's perfect
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game, the first perfect game thrown in a World Series. Along the way, he manages to emphasize the roles of expert fielding and Sal Maglie's pitching in the drama of that game. By looking at all the players, Paper reestablishes both the teamwork which was characteristic of 1950s baseball and the skills, talents and hard work of all 18 players. A very good baseball book. Show Less
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421 p.; 24 cm
ISBN
9780451228192
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