This game was played in the Bronx. Eight days later in Manhattan a 13 year old chess prodigy named Bobby Fischer won what has been called the Game of the Century with a stunningly brilliant queen sacrifice in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournment against Donald Byrne. Two historical sporting events took place in very close proximity to each other in time and distance.
The legendary Bob Sheppard announcing the lineups for both teams. He was behind the mike at Yankee Stadium 🏟 almost as long as Vin Scully was behind the mike calling games for the Dodgers in both Brooklyn and L.A.
Yup! For Vincent Edward Scully, he broadcast Dodger games for 66 years - 67 consecutive seasons(1950-2016), which is two-thirds of a century. Remarkable! 😁😁😁😁😁
This is TRULY a gem. Thanks a million for sharing this MLB Network debut broadcast with clips of the original NBC-TV telecast of Don Larsen's perfect game from the 1956 World Series between the Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers. Truly a classic.
"Pee Wee Reese playing catch with himself." Vin Scully, bottom of the 5th, '56 WS Perfect Game. Mel Allen made some great calls here in the first half of the game, but wow. First time I'm watching the entire game. Thanks for posting. (I was 3 yrs old then, watching with my Italian grandfather who taught me the game. Supposedly I remember it. LOL!) I do remember the '57, '58 & later WS more clearly. All in glorious B&W.
The next perfect game pitched by a Yankee was David Wells, 40-something years later. Wells and Larsen both attended Point Loma Highschool in San Diego. Then, a year later, Don Larsen was at Yankee Stadium for Yogi Berra Day. He witnessed David Cone's perfect game.
Just before the tape starts with Gil Hodges batting in the 2nd, Jackie Robinson hit a sharp grounder that deflected off 3B Andy Carey’s glove but was fielded by SS Gil McDougald who threw out Robby at first by half a step. That was an important play.
I read that Casey Stengel was rendered speechless for perhaps the only time in his life when after the game a sportswriter asked him if Larsen had ever pitched a better game.
There were 4 balls that could have easily become hits.Curt Schilling's shut out of the Blue Jays interrupted a team on a batting rage before and after the gem.The Dodgers scored a total of 1 run in two games after Larsen's effort and just a total of 5 in the two games before it.A Phil Humber game.
2:24:04 Don Larsen's final pitch to pinch-hitter Dale Mitchell and IT HAPPENED!!!, SIMPLY PERFECTION!. What a grand prized way to end one of baseball greatest pitching performances that'll go down into the history books as ONE FOR THE AGES!!!!! #makinghistoryhappen
You are quite correct. In 1956, while there were some problems, as there are in every year, and while medical technology was far inferior to what it is today, there was in 1956 much greater social stability. The family unit was strong. The Islamic threat was unheard of. Immigration was strictly controlled, and illegal immigration even more so. The divorce rate was low. Sexual immorality was low and disapproved of by society. The birth rate was healthy, above the replacement level. The country was on a gold standard, so there was little debt and little inflation. Jobs were plentiful and the standard of living was rising. Church attendance was high, and churches were well-respected in society. Abortion, homosexual "marriage", and transgenderism were unheard of. Patriotism was still to be found on the university campuses.
I grew up in the 80s and I can attest to the 80s being much better than current times. I can imagine the 50s were way better just from talking to my parents and other relatives who grew up in the 50s
@@crimsontide1980 The 80's were good but in 1983, the VCR was becoming dominate in households. So people were able to watch whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted. Before the VCR, if there was nothing on tv ( and a lot of times there wasn't boring news, boring westerns) you were outside playing something with friends. That slowly faded and now very few kids are outside playing.
@@johnnyc5422 Absolutely right! I recall getting our first VCR in '86 and that really did change TV from something that was watched only at night or whenever the weather was inclement, to being watched at all times of the day because with VHS tapes, a good movie was always a couple button presses away, instead of having to scan through the TV guide and remembering the time and channel when a good movie was coming on. I was fortunate to live most of my childhood before technology took over. Fortunately I was always busy with sports and hanging out with friends, we really didn't stay inside very often, especially since I've been raised in the South where winter used to be fairly mild. I have 2 sons and I try to keep them outside as much as possible. It's hard because I have to compete with internet, tablets, video game consoles, TVs with multiple streaming services, etc.
Don Drysdale was a Brooklyn Dodger rookie in 1956, and had a great view of the game in the Dodger dugout, and had made his first World Series appearance in Game 4 against the Yankees, allowing two runs on two hits.
Jackie will play in 2 more games after this one and Mickey said the last pitch was outside and should have been a ball but Pinelli got caught up in the moment and called strike 3 for the perfect game what a piece of gold to dig for your 1st broadcast
TimRobinson-You're right. From what I've read, pictures taken of the last pitch thrown by Larsen was indeed outside, and was not a strike. But as you said Pinelli was caught up by the history being made, that he did indeed call strike three on Mitchell. Mitchell turned around to argue, but Pinelli had already run off the field.
i’m going out on a limb here and say that the batter went around but that would be a judgement call. i’ll give the ump the benefit of the doubt. just this once for the sake of history.@@kevinmiller6380
This was Dale Mitchell’s last game in the majors after a good career of 10-11 years. He had a lifetime .312 batting average and one of the lowest strikeout rates in baseball history, about 2.9 percent. He knew the strike zone better than Babe Pinelli did.
I got to meet Don Larsen at a Hot Stove League reunion banquet around 1979 at some hotel near the Anaheim Convention Center. One of the guys I worked with used to pitch for the old Hollywood Stars and the Los Angeles Angels in the Pacific Coast League back in the late 40's to mid-50's and he knew Larsen. He had come over to our table he I was introduced to him. What a thrill even though he was half crocked. I also got to meet Willie McCovey, Bill Buehler, the former L.A. Dodger's trainer and former Dodger announcer Jerry Doggett.
@@AllanGonnella That is a really cool story. Grew up with Vin Scully, Ross Porter, and Jerry Doggett on the radio. I always heard that Larsen enjoyed the nightlife.
Sal Maglie is the only one to have been involved in two history making games. In 1951, he was the starting pitcher in the third game of playoffs to decide the National League pennant, won on Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard 'Round The World, and was the starting and losing pitcher of this game.
I was 12 years old and played hookey for the first time in my life and watched this game live on TV, little did I know I was watching history in the making.
Mention of Hall of Famers in this game/series by Costa at 15…. I believe y’all may have missed one. The man behind the plate, Ralph 1:24:07 Arthur “Babe” Pinelli… I believe also made it as a Umpire… actually there’s a story in itself about Babe and this game… he played for Boston I believe, then became a Ump to stay in the game… he retired from baseball the next day after the series was over… Babe cited that having called Larson’s game from behind the plate…he had witnessed perfection and it was beyond words… it would bring tears to his eyes later through the years… no words could describe the emotions which stirred as a result of what he witnessed… and had no choice but to retire thus never calling another game ….
After the Dodgers scored 19 runs combined in the first two games of this Series, averaging 1.2 runs per inning, Yankees pitching held them to just 6 runs over the last 5 games - 0.13 runs/inning. The Yankee starters pitched every inning, every out in five straight games, 3 through 7. In addition to Larsen in game 5, Whitey Ford pitched game 3, Tom Sturdivant game 4, Bob Turley game 6 (lost 1-0 in the 10th) and Johnny Kucks game 7. Five straight games without the bullpen. Won’t ever see that again.
23:40. When announcing the scores of the first four games of the series Mel didn't give the final score for Game 4, which was 6-2 in favor of the Yankees, knotting the series at two games apiece.
Vin Scully was wrong. 2:24:15 "Never in the history of the game has it ever happened in the World Series. Only the 2nd time in baseball history, a World Series, where a perfect game has been pitched." This was the 4th perfect game in major league history (the 1st in a World Series).
Vin Scully said that Larsen had retired the first 18 batters at the start of the seventh. I suspect he was starting to realize that this could be special.
I love me some Peewee Reese, but where did his parents get that from? His size, something cultural, or a nickname, but than you got jackie, and duke, anyone have a guess or an answer?
To @frederickrapp5396: I think the first World Series broadcast in color was in 1958; 1960 definitely was, on NBC. Naturally, nobody had the foresight to save these games for posterity.
The first World Series to be televised in color was in 1955, when Brooklyn won. It was recorded on RCA low band videotape.. Unfortunately years later, NBC cleared out its vault in Fort Lee, NJ, and this recording did not survive.
The first World Series to be televised in color was in 1955, when Brooklyn won. NBC recorded the games on the experimental RCA low band videotape format. Unfortunately these tapes did not survive.
I really hate it when people compare perfect games to no-hitters. I can walk 20 batters and have a no-hitter. The only game that's more impressive than this is Harvey Haddix's 12 innings of perfection in 1959. That was only three years after this.
@ 2:22:40 Vin Scully got that one wrong. Johnny Podres won Game 7 of the 1955 World Series against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium which was a 9 inning 2-0 shutout. There was far more at stake in that Game 7 than the Game 5 of the 1956 World Series.
Really?! Larson is pitching a perfect game in the WS, hd needs just one more out. A unique event in baseball history. You think it’s less important than Podres pitching game 7 in 55?! Come on. Be serious.
It was a very 'clutch catch', as they say. But it is not quite a spectacular one. If you look closely it appears that Mick did not get a good angled, deeper break on the ball. He uses his considerable speed to execute a 'banana route' to the ball and makes a fine running back-handed grab. No disrespect to Mickey on his page, but Mays would have also caught the ball. I never saw DiMaggio play so I can't say he would not have. Again, this play was a clutch catch, as it turned out. No one imagined yet that Larsen was going to pitch that perfect game. Very good catch.
The Astros threw a no hitter in the WS last year but i thinkit took 4 guys to do it. This in part is what kills the game now a guy is pitching a no hitter in a WS and is taken out I would have taken a bat to my manager and killed him on live tv if he dared do that to me in that moment
This game was played in the Bronx. Eight days later in Manhattan a 13 year old chess prodigy named Bobby Fischer won what has been called the Game of the Century with a stunningly brilliant queen sacrifice in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournment against Donald Byrne. Two historical sporting events took place in very close proximity to each other in time and distance.
Wow… very cool… perfect manifests twice so close in time… neither have been duplicated since.. chills !
The legendary Bob Sheppard announcing the lineups for both teams. He was behind the mike at Yankee Stadium 🏟 almost as long as Vin Scully was behind the mike calling games for the Dodgers in both Brooklyn and L.A.
Yup! For Vincent Edward Scully, he broadcast Dodger games for 66 years - 67 consecutive seasons(1950-2016), which is two-thirds of a century. Remarkable! 😁😁😁😁😁
Amazing video. TY for posting this gem. Have never seen this, ever.
You’re very welcome. Yeah, it’s pretty awesome the first time you see it.
This is TRULY a gem. Thanks a million for sharing this MLB Network debut broadcast with clips of the original NBC-TV telecast of Don Larsen's perfect game from the 1956 World Series between the Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers. Truly a classic.
@@CelluloidwatcherYou are very welcome!
"Pee Wee Reese playing catch with himself." Vin Scully, bottom of the 5th, '56 WS Perfect Game. Mel Allen made some great calls here in the first half of the game, but wow. First time I'm watching the entire game. Thanks for posting. (I was 3 yrs old then, watching with my Italian grandfather who taught me the game. Supposedly I remember it. LOL!) I do remember the '57, '58 & later WS more clearly. All in glorious B&W.
THANK YOU for the commercials!
The next perfect game pitched by a Yankee was David Wells, 40-something years later. Wells and Larsen both attended Point Loma Highschool in San Diego. Then, a year later, Don Larsen was at Yankee Stadium for Yogi Berra Day. He witnessed David Cone's perfect game.
Thank you for posting this. My 91 year old Dad was a Yankees fan back in the 50s and he will love to watch this.
You’re very welcome!
Just before the tape starts with Gil Hodges batting in the 2nd, Jackie Robinson hit a sharp grounder that deflected off 3B Andy Carey’s glove but was fielded by SS Gil McDougald who threw out Robby at first by half a step. That was an important play.
I read that Casey Stengel was rendered speechless for perhaps the only time in his life when after the game a sportswriter asked him if Larsen had ever pitched a better game.
There were 4 balls that could have easily become hits.Curt Schilling's shut out of the Blue Jays interrupted a team on a batting rage before and after the gem.The Dodgers scored a total of 1 run in two games after Larsen's effort and just a total of 5 in the two games before it.A Phil Humber game.
2:24:04 Don Larsen's final pitch to pinch-hitter Dale Mitchell and IT HAPPENED!!!, SIMPLY PERFECTION!. What a grand prized way to end one of baseball greatest pitching performances that'll go down into the history books as ONE FOR THE AGES!!!!! #makinghistoryhappen
I know all parts of history had their problems but it feels like life was better back when this game was played.
You are quite correct. In 1956, while there were some problems, as there are in every year, and while medical technology was far inferior to what it is today, there was in 1956 much greater social stability. The family unit was strong. The Islamic threat was unheard of. Immigration was strictly controlled, and illegal immigration even more so. The divorce rate was low. Sexual immorality was low and disapproved of by society. The birth rate was healthy, above the replacement level. The country was on a gold standard, so there was little debt and little inflation. Jobs were plentiful and the standard of living was rising. Church attendance was high, and churches were well-respected in society. Abortion, homosexual "marriage", and transgenderism were unheard of. Patriotism was still to be found on the university campuses.
It's not your imagination. Things were infinitely better.
I grew up in the 80s and I can attest to the 80s being much better than current times. I can imagine the 50s were way better just from talking to my parents and other relatives who grew up in the 50s
@@crimsontide1980 The 80's were good but in 1983, the VCR was becoming dominate in households. So people were able to watch whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted. Before the VCR, if there was nothing on tv ( and a lot of times there wasn't boring news, boring westerns) you were outside playing something with friends. That slowly faded and now very few kids are outside playing.
@@johnnyc5422 Absolutely right! I recall getting our first VCR in '86 and that really did change TV from something that was watched only at night or whenever the weather was inclement, to being watched at all times of the day because with VHS tapes, a good movie was always a couple button presses away, instead of having to scan through the TV guide and remembering the time and channel when a good movie was coming on. I was fortunate to live most of my childhood before technology took over. Fortunately I was always busy with sports and hanging out with friends, we really didn't stay inside very often, especially since I've been raised in the South where winter used to be fairly mild. I have 2 sons and I try to keep them outside as much as possible. It's hard because I have to compete with internet, tablets, video game consoles, TVs with multiple streaming services, etc.
Don Drysdale was a Brooklyn Dodger rookie in 1956, and had a great view of the game in the Dodger dugout, and had made his first World Series appearance in Game 4 against the Yankees, allowing two runs on two hits.
Jackie will play in 2 more games after this one and Mickey said the last pitch was outside and should have been a ball but Pinelli got caught up in the moment and called strike 3 for the perfect game what a piece of gold to dig for your 1st broadcast
TimRobinson-You're right. From what I've read, pictures taken of the last pitch thrown by Larsen was indeed outside, and was not a strike. But as you said Pinelli was caught up by the history being made, that he did indeed call strike three on Mitchell. Mitchell turned around to argue, but Pinelli had already run off the field.
i’m going out on a limb here and say that the batter went around but that would be a judgement call. i’ll give the ump the benefit of the doubt. just this once for the sake of history.@@kevinmiller6380
This was Dale Mitchell’s last game in the majors after a good career of 10-11 years. He had a lifetime .312 batting average and one of the lowest strikeout rates in baseball history, about 2.9 percent. He knew the strike zone better than Babe Pinelli did.
@@thomaswolf723 No wonder the Brooklyn Dodgers Sym-phony would play Three Blind Mice when they marched through the stands at Ebbets Field. 😄😄😄😄😄😄
It would not have mattered in any case. Mitchell did not check his swing in time, and came around too far, and would have been out anyway.
I got to meet Don Larsen at a Hot Stove League reunion banquet around 1979 at some hotel near the Anaheim Convention Center. One of the guys I worked with used to pitch for the old Hollywood Stars and the Los Angeles Angels in the Pacific Coast League back in the late 40's to mid-50's and he knew Larsen. He had come over to our table he I was introduced to him. What a thrill even though he was half crocked. I also got to meet Willie McCovey, Bill Buehler, the former L.A. Dodger's trainer and former Dodger announcer Jerry Doggett.
@@AllanGonnella That is a really cool story. Grew up with Vin Scully, Ross Porter, and Jerry Doggett on the radio.
I always heard that Larsen enjoyed the nightlife.
Sal Maglie is the only one to have been involved in two history making games. In 1951, he was the starting pitcher in the third game of playoffs to decide the National League pennant, won on Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard 'Round The World, and was the starting and losing pitcher of this game.
Maglie wound up pitching for the Giants, Dodgers and Yankees.
I was 12 years old and played hookey for the first time in my life and watched this game live on TV, little did I know I was watching history in the making.
Mention of Hall of Famers in this game/series by Costa at 15…. I believe y’all may have missed one. The man behind the plate, Ralph 1:24:07 Arthur “Babe” Pinelli… I believe also made it as a Umpire… actually there’s a story in itself about Babe and this game… he played for Boston I believe, then became a Ump to stay in the game… he retired from baseball the next day after the series was over… Babe cited that having called Larson’s game from behind the plate…he had witnessed perfection and it was beyond words… it would bring tears to his eyes later through the years… no words could describe the emotions which stirred as a result of what he witnessed… and had no choice but to retire thus never calling another game ….
Pinelli isn’t in the Hall of Fame
@@raschticky actually he’s in the Italian American Sports Hall of Fame but notCooperstown
But he did make it into the Itialian American Sports Hall of Fame
But he did make it into the Itialian American Sports Hall of Fame
Now when they show this they go back and forth between the game and the interview.
After the Dodgers scored 19 runs combined in the first two games of this Series, averaging 1.2 runs per inning, Yankees pitching held them to just 6 runs over the last 5 games - 0.13 runs/inning.
The Yankee starters pitched every inning, every out in five straight games, 3 through 7. In addition to Larsen in game 5, Whitey Ford pitched game 3, Tom Sturdivant game 4, Bob Turley game 6 (lost 1-0 in the 10th) and Johnny Kucks game 7. Five straight games without the bullpen. Won’t ever see that again.
Great piece of history here if you ever find a kinescope of 1955 WS game 7. let me know
I will. That will be a fun day.
23:40. When announcing the scores of the first four games of the series Mel didn't give the final score for Game 4, which was 6-2 in favor of the Yankees, knotting the series at two games apiece.
Mickey Mantle saved it with his running catch off Gil Hodges drive to left center, 1:02:45. Despite his knee injury, he could still run.
This is awesome. Wonder why Vin wasn't there.
Larsen was a good hitting pitcher. I remember the Giants using him as a pinch-hitter a few times.
mickey knew how to deal with the shift!
Vin Scully was wrong. 2:24:15 "Never in the history of the game has it ever happened in the World Series. Only the 2nd time in baseball history, a World Series, where a perfect game has been pitched." This was the 4th perfect game in major league history (the 1st in a World Series).
Perhaps Vin Scully meant the first perfect game in the modern era, sometimes thought to begin in 1920, with the end of the dead ball era.
I find it a fun thing to do to watch Don Larson's perfect game and root for sal magley!
If I'm not mistaken, Bob Wolf did the radio call for this historic classic.
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Sal Magile also pitched an impressive game. The Yankees only batted in eight innings. Only two Yankee batters went to the plate four times.
Hank Bauer is wearing #9. This was before Roger Maris. It's now retired for Maris.
To find one of those pocket sized baseball encyclopedia's at some garage sale....
Vin Scully said that Larsen had retired the first 18 batters at the start of the seventh. I suspect he was starting to realize that this could be special.
I really wonder how they could have an "encyclopedia of baseball" that could fit into your pocket. The book should be HUGE.
It is. I used to have a copy of that book.
Mel Allen (PBP) Bottom 2-Top 5th
Vin Scully (PBP) 2nd half
Dale Mitchell led the AL with 23 triples in 1949.
Did not know a kinescope of this game existed.
@@jaymorgenthal9479 It’s pretty awesome the first time you see it.
Cheers to ya, maaaaaan 🍻🍻🍻
@@risboturbide9396You got it my friend!
1:07:08 Vin Scully the rest of the way.
2:24:08 the best moment in all of baseball
This is a recreation
My uncle played the batboy
I love me some Peewee Reese, but where did his parents get that from? His size, something cultural, or a nickname, but than you got jackie, and duke, anyone have a guess or an answer?
Campy in his auto says greatest game he was involved in . And Aaron and Musial was the best hitters .
My Uncle Arvin was discharged from the Army the day this happened
Thank you !
For those few people who had color TVs in 1956, was this game broadcast in color?
Great comment! That is a lot of fun to think about.
To @frederickrapp5396: I think the first World Series broadcast in color was in 1958; 1960 definitely was, on NBC. Naturally, nobody had the foresight to save these games for posterity.
The first World Series to be televised in color was in 1955, when Brooklyn won. It was recorded on RCA low band videotape.. Unfortunately years later, NBC cleared out its vault in Fort Lee, NJ, and this recording did not survive.
The first World Series to be televised in color was in 1955, when Brooklyn won. NBC recorded the games on the experimental RCA low band videotape format. Unfortunately these tapes did not survive.
I think f valenzuela had pitch perfect game 1981 but the interrupied. Season players huelga. Afect his inspirationcut ritmo. With fodgerd
I really hate it when people compare perfect games to no-hitters. I can walk 20 batters and have a no-hitter.
The only game that's more impressive than this is Harvey Haddix's 12 innings of perfection in 1959. That was only three years after this.
Wat inning does vin call?
@ 2:22:40 Vin Scully got that one wrong. Johnny Podres won Game 7 of the 1955 World Series against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium which was a 9 inning 2-0 shutout. There was far more at stake in that Game 7 than the Game 5 of the 1956 World Series.
Give it a rest.
You give it a rest.
@@wadevandort1598 OOOOOOOOOO... NICE.
Truth alone should have been enough to prevent you from attacking another so bitterly.
Really?! Larson is pitching a perfect game in the WS, hd needs just one more out. A unique event in baseball history. You think it’s less important than Podres pitching game 7 in 55?! Come on. Be serious.
It was a very 'clutch catch', as they say. But it is not quite a spectacular one. If you look closely it appears that Mick did not get a good angled, deeper break on the ball. He uses his considerable speed to execute a 'banana route' to the ball and makes a fine running back-handed grab. No disrespect to Mickey on his page, but Mays would have also caught the ball. I never saw DiMaggio play so I can't say he would not have. Again, this play was a clutch catch, as it turned out. No one imagined yet that Larsen was going to pitch that perfect game. Very good catch.
No saying there were so many great catches . But the Duke of Flatbush catch was .
The Astros threw a no hitter in the WS last year but i thinkit took 4 guys to do it. This in part is what kills the game now a guy is pitching a no hitter in a WS and is taken out I would have taken a bat to my manager and killed him on live tv if he dared do that to me in that moment
Imagine if the Yankees manager had pulled Larsen with two outs in the 9th.
If that had happened Larsen would have had every right to kill Casey right there in the dugout in front of the world@@Bob31415
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2:23:59
I think fernando valenzuels had perfect gsme dodgers 1981 if players huelga no stop season at half of season
Umpires (Game 5)
HP Babe Pinelli (NL) (Crew Chief)
1B Hank Soar (AL)
2B Dusty Boggess (NL)
3B Larry Napp (AL)
LF Tom Gorman (NL)
RF Ed Runge (AL)
Announcer: John Imbriale
@@rstefanie2622No. This is Game 5 of the 1956 World Series.
Commentators:
Mel Allen & Vin Scully.
Nice video, but baseball was so slow back then. It's nice that they put a timer on the pitcher today.
This game was played in only 2 hours 6 minutes.
@@EphSBGGSO What makes the games so slow are all the commercials.
1:24:26
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Me say tha ks dlso by comercials i am also retro live person give. A feel ofvalues hsppines to be better person i think