Still Perfect Over 50 Years Later

This story really tickled me. On Friday night at the Yogi Berra museum (yes, there really is such a thing) at Montclair State University, there was a showing of the only known film of the NBC broadcast of Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series. This is still the only no-hitter or perfect game in baseball postseaon history, and Vin Scully did the play-by-play (he's still going strong working Dodgers games).

Here's what I thought was really cool. This was the first time that Larsen or his catcher that day, Berra, had ever seen the entire game. Even better, the event was held as a fundraiser with funds going to Larsen's charitible foundation and the endowment that Berra is gathering to fund an expansion of the museum.

Click here to read the New York Times story "Still Perfect After All Those Years," about the event and the story of how this film was one of the few from that era of television that still exists.