{"id":94101,"date":"2020-01-06T08:10:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T12:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=94101"},"modified":"2020-01-06T08:10:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T12:10:26","slug":"don-larsen-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=94101","title":{"rendered":"Don Larsen Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/d\/d8\/PerfectLarsen.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former MLB player Don Larsen <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/28407056\/don-larsen-pitched-only-perfect-world-series-game-dies-90\">passed away last week<\/a><\/em>, on New Year\u2019s Day.\u00a0 He was 90.<\/p>\n<p>His MLB career was reasonably long, though decidedly not of Hall of Fame caliber.\u00a0 However, on 8 October 1956, Larsen caught \u201clightning in a bottle\u201d \u2013 making history in the process.<\/p>\n<p>On that date, Don Larsen pitched <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Don_Larsen#1956_World_Series\">the only perfect game in World Series history<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 Until 2010, it was also the only MLB postseason no-hitter; it remains the only no-hitter pitched during a World Series game.<\/p>\n<p>So, why mention his passing here?\u00a0 Like many of his era, Larsen was also a vet.\u00a0 He was drafted into the Army during the Korean War, serving from 1951 to 1953.<\/p>\n<p>Godspeed, Mr. Larsen.\u00a0 May you have been in heaven a half-hour before the Devil knew you were gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Former MLB player Don Larsen passed away last week, on New Year\u2019s Day.\u00a0 He was &hellip; <a title=\"Don Larsen Passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=94101\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don Larsen Passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-blue-skies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94102,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94101\/revisions\/94102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}