For baseball pitchers, every game starts out perfect -- no runs, no hits, no baserunners. Finishing it that way is a challenge rarely accomplished -- the perfect game.
In his August presentation, award-winning sportswriter Hal Bock reviews some of baseball's rarest accomplishments -- the perfect game, 27 batters up and 27 batters down..
The most famous is the one Don Larsen threw in the 1956 World Series, the only no-hitter in World Series history. Then there are the flawed ones like Boston's Ernie Shore relieving Babe Ruth in the first inning and retired 26 in a row after the runner Ruth walked was thrown out stealing. And Harvey Haddix who was perfect into extra innings before giving up a hit and losing the game. And the near-misses like Milt Pappas retiring 26 in a row and then walking the 27th batter on a 3-2 pitch.
Perfect games have been thrown by Hall of Famers like Sandy Koufax and less accomplished pitchers like Larsen. Hal Bock discusses many of them in this program.
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