Twenty years ago, Yankees pitcher David Cone did what only a handful of players had done before him: He pitched the perfect game. In a standoff with the Montreal Expos on July 18, 1999, the 36-year-old Cone — most players peak in their late 20s — needed just 88 pitches, 68 of them strikes, to stop the Expos from getting a single hit.
He became just the 16th person in major league history (and the third Yankee) to pull off the near-impossible, and it’s still a hallowed memory for Yankees fans.