The New York Yankees Don Larsen, a not-so-perfect pitcher, put his name into the baseball history books yesterday 65 years ago when he pitched the only perfect game in World Series history.
On January 1, 2020, Don Larsen’s son Scott had announced that his father had entered hospice. He stated that his father, a former New York Yankee pitcher, had had treatments for esophageal cancer in recent months but had taken a turn for the worse and had entered hospice care. He died shortly after that in Hayden, Idaho, at the age of 90. Don Larsen holds the record for having pitched the only World Series perfect game in baseball history.