Yogi Berra & Don Larsen: October 8, 1956

From Sports Illustrated:

LITTLE FALLS, N.J. (AP) -- More than 50 years after etching his name in baseball's record books, Don Larsen finally got to see himself do it.

Along with a crowd of about 100 people Friday night that included former teammate Yogi Berra, the pitcher who owns the only perfect game in World Series history watched the television broadcast of the Oct. 8, 1956, game, courtesy of Illinois collector Doak Ewing.

Neither Larsen nor Berra had ever watched the original broadcast of the game . . . .

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Larsen recalled how his teammates, cleaving to baseball superstition, refused to sit near him or talk to him in the final few innings.

"I didn't believe in superstition," he said. "I was more uncomfortable the last few innings because no one would talk to me or sit next to me. The only time I was happy was when I was on the mound."

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Other members of Friday's audience had their own stories. Paul Lioy's father got him out of school that day to go to the game but nearly caused him to miss the ending because he wanted to beat the traffic home.

"In the bottom of the seventh inning he looked at me and said, 'OK, it's time to leave,"' said Lioy, a professor at New Jersey's Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. "I said, 'But it's a perfect game! It's part of history!' Then two guys who were sitting in the row in front of us turned around and said to him, 'Hey, listen to the kid.' So we stayed."