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Lot # 952: 1956 Don Larsen World Series Game 5 Perfect Game Ticket Stub Pair

Starting Bid: $300.00

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Item was in Auction "2024 Winter Classic",
which ran from 2/25/2024 10:00 AM to
3/16/2024 10:00 PM



Displayed is a 1956 pair of ticket stubs to the only perfect game in World Series history, Don Larsen's 2-0 win over the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 5 at Yankee Stadium. The Series was knotted at two games each. Larsen was perfect through four innings with the game still scoreless. In the bottom of the fourth, Mickey Mantle hit a bases-empty blast to give the Yankees a 1-0. In the sixth inning, the Bombers' Hank Bauer drove in the Yanks second run with a single. Larsen, who often struggled with control, kept putting the ball wherever catcher Yogi Berra wanted. 'I had great control," said Larsen. "I never had that kind of control in my life." Larsen achieved his game of perfection when he struck out Dodgers pinch hitter Dale Mitchell. After the game, Larsen admitted that he didn't really know about something called a perfect game, possibly because the previous perfect game had been in 1922. Larsen thought he had just thrown, in his words, "an extra-good no-hitter." Although the Dodgers rebounded to win Game 6, the Yankees won Game 7 at Ebbets Field to take the title. Although Christian Javier and three relief pitchers pitched a combined no-hitter against the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2022 World Series - the only other no-hitter in baseball history - there has still never been another World Series perfect game. The pair of colorful tickets are for $7.35 Upper Stand reserved seats, Section 31, Row 4, seats 2 and 3. In part, the ticket stubs read, "1956 World Series/Game 5/Yankee Stadium." The stubs measure approx. 2.3x4.2". The stub for seat 2 has more of a tear from when the ticket was torn at the entrance gate. Both tickets are in EXCELLENT condition, and they provide a wonderful remembrance of Don Larsen's perfect day.

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