Pefect Game (1906, 1907, 1908)

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Don't expect a perfect game by the Yankees in this year's World  Series.
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October 08, 2006

On this date in...  

1956...Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in  World Series history, as 
the Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0. 
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(OED)
perfect  game n. chiefly N.  Amer. (a) Baseball, a no-hitter in which the  
pitcher or pitchers of one team allow no hits or walks and there are no errors,  
such that none of the opposing team's players get on base; (b) Bowling, a 
game in which the maximum number of possible points is  scored.  
1908  Chicago Daily Tribune 3 Oct. 8/1 That feat was the pitching of an 
absolutely *perfect game, without run,  without hit, and without letting an 
opponent reach first base by hook or crook. 1967  Encycl. Brit. III. 231/2 A  
no-hitter in which no batter walks or otherwise reaches first base is called a  ‘
perfect game’. 1995  Daily Times (Salisbury, Maryland) 10 Aug. 17/3 A lot of 
people  say that if you bowl one strike in the 10th frame of a perfect game, you 
can probably get three. 
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_FIRST  NO-HIT GAME.; Brooklyn Twirler Pitches Perfect Game Against the 
Cardinals. _ 
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The Washington Post (1877-1954). Washington,  D.C.: Jul 21, 1906. p. 8 (1 
page) 
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St. Louis, July 20. -- Pitcher Eason, of Brooklyn, held St. Louis  without a 
hit or a run to-day, the visitors winning, 2 to 0.
(There was one error--ed.)
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T P. Chicago Daily Tribune (1872-1963). Chicago, Ill.: Jun 23,  1907. p. A4 
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(4) What is a perfect game?
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(4) A perfect fielding game is an errorless one, a perfect batting  game 
would be where every batter made a clean hit, every time at bat; a  perfectly 
pitched game would be where no one reached first base.
 

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