Perfect Game
It was a perfect game - especially for Yankees fans -- but, really, for any fan of baseball.
The famous 1956 World Series perfect game (click here for the baseball-almanac.com statistics on perfect games) was aired on the MLB Network's debut night, with commentary from Don Larsen and Yogi Berra, hosted by Bob Costas.
If you missed it, you missed out. But here's an ad for the show, just to make you salivate.
Props to the New York Times Sports department for alerting me and my Pops to the broadcast. The Times introduced it with an article about Larsen's "six-day odyssey" to make the round-trip travel from Idaho to New York and back to tape interviews for the show in New Jersey. Bad weather on both coasts and broken cell phones be damned, Larsen made it for the interview and home in time for Christmas. Just barely.
Broadcast on January 1st, the perfect game proved that there really is more to watch than football in the new year. Surely Yogi has offered some malapropism about the ascendency of baseball in the face of America's other favorite pastime? Maybe he said baseball is the most popular sport among 90% of the population and football ranks first among the other half? Something like that...? Nah, I'll lay off the funny man.
Living again in Jackson Heights, Queens I ran past the old Shea and the new Citi Field yesterday morning. Sad to say goodbye to my childhood stadium, but happy to erase the memories of a horrible finish to the last season.
Ever the optimist, I joyfully count down the days to April 13th.
The famous 1956 World Series perfect game (click here for the baseball-almanac.com statistics on perfect games) was aired on the MLB Network's debut night, with commentary from Don Larsen and Yogi Berra, hosted by Bob Costas.
If you missed it, you missed out. But here's an ad for the show, just to make you salivate.
Props to the New York Times Sports department for alerting me and my Pops to the broadcast. The Times introduced it with an article about Larsen's "six-day odyssey" to make the round-trip travel from Idaho to New York and back to tape interviews for the show in New Jersey. Bad weather on both coasts and broken cell phones be damned, Larsen made it for the interview and home in time for Christmas. Just barely.
Broadcast on January 1st, the perfect game proved that there really is more to watch than football in the new year. Surely Yogi has offered some malapropism about the ascendency of baseball in the face of America's other favorite pastime? Maybe he said baseball is the most popular sport among 90% of the population and football ranks first among the other half? Something like that...? Nah, I'll lay off the funny man.
Living again in Jackson Heights, Queens I ran past the old Shea and the new Citi Field yesterday morning. Sad to say goodbye to my childhood stadium, but happy to erase the memories of a horrible finish to the last season.
Ever the optimist, I joyfully count down the days to April 13th.