New York Yankees righthander Don Larsen, the same Don Larsen who had gone 3-21 two years earlier with the Baltimore Orioles, had just thrown the only perfect game in World Series history, a 2-0 ...
A legend of this newspaper, and of this business, involves the day that Don Larsen pitched his perfect game for the Yankees in the World Series, the first perfect game a Yankee had ever pitched, still ...
“What’s happening!?’ He came up behind me, asking with his Cheshire Cat grin. It was Baghdad, Iraq, 2003, on a hot, dusty rooftop overlooking Saddam Hussein’s just-conquered capital, and I never ...