It was fifty years ago today

[GA Russell]

Don Larsen pitched his perfect game in the World Series.

My parents had tickets to see My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews on Broadway, and they spent the day driving down to New York from Boston, listening to the game on the car radio. Some day!

[JSngry]

[JSngry]

This is how I first encountered the man. He kinda scared me.

[Jim R]

Large head?

[Jazzmoose]

I didn't think Sgt. Pepper was that long ago...

[JSngry]

Large head?

Nah - windbreaker under the uniform combined w/a visible flat top. CREEPY!

Dude, any player w/o a hat on a baseball card back then was somebody you knew was not in a stable position...

[Chalupa]

This is how I first encountered the man. He kinda scared me.

Isn't that the drill sergeant from Full Metal Jacket????

[Dan Gould]

This is how I first encountered the man. He kinda scared me.

Isn't that the drill sergeant from Full Metal Jacket????

I thought it was my 9th grade Social Studies teacher, Hans Colischon, who did a lot more than "kinda" scare young students. I swear he's the spitting image, if you age that photograph 20 years.

[JSngry]

Dude, any player w/o a hat on a baseball card back then was somebody you knew was not in a stable position...

As is also true of a cat who's one one team's card while wearing the uniform of another, Larsen's in Giants garb on that Astros card.

I smell Bobby Bland....er....trouble.

[ghost of miles]

THE great era of New York baseball--Willie, Mickey & the Duke etc. Long live the Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field.

[ghost of miles]

Bet there were some good jazz gigs in town that night too. (Although it was a Monday--were most NY jazz bars/clubs open on Monday evenings in the mid-1950s?)

Edited October 8, 2006 by ghost of miles