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[[perfect game]] for the [[New York Yankees]] in the fifth game of the [[World Series]].<ref name=nyt>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/obituaries/don-larsen-dead.html|title=Don Larsen, Yankee Who Pitched Only Perfect Game in World Series History, Dies at 90|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=January 1, 2020|author=Richard Goldstein|accessdate=January 16, 2020; under pay wall}}</ref>

[[perfect game]] for the [[New York Yankees]] in the fifth game of the [[World Series]].<ref name=nyt>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/obituaries/don-larsen-dead.html|title=Don Larsen, Yankee Who Pitched Only Perfect Game in World Series History, Dies at 90|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=January 1, 2020|author=Richard Goldstein|accessdate=January 16, 2020; under pay wall}}</ref>

Larsen was born in Michigan City, [[Indiana]], and moved with his family to [[San Diego]], [[California]], where he attended Point Loma High School, at which he played baseball and [[basketball]]. He was initially signed in 1953 by the St. Louis Browns. After two minor league seasons, he entered the [[United States Army]] for two years. He returned to the Browns, who relocated in 1954 to [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]]. He joined the Yankees in 1955. After the 1959 season ended, the Yankees traded Larsen to [[Kansas City]] in an arrangement that brought to the Yankees Roger Eugene Maris (1934-1985),  who broke [[Babe Ruth]]'s home-run record, hitting sixty-one home runs in 1961. After a single season in Kansas City, Larsen played for five other teams until he retired after fourteen seasons with a losing career recordd. ''[[The New York Times]]'' called him an "otherwise ordinary pitcher" who "for one day in 1956 was the picture of perfection."<ref name=nyt/>

Larsen was born in Michigan City, [[Indiana]], and moved with his family to [[San Diego]], [[California]], where he attended Point Loma High School, at which he played baseball and [[basketball]]. He was initially signed in 1953 by the St. Louis Browns. After two minor league seasons, he entered the [[United States Army]] for two years. He returned to the Browns, who relocated in 1954 to [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]]. He joined the Yankees in 1955. After the 1959 season ended, the Yankees traded Larsen to [[Kansas City]] in an arrangement that brought to the Yankees Roger Eugene Maris (1934-1985),  who broke [[Babe Ruth]]'s home-run record, hitting sixty-one home runs in 1961. After a single season in Kansas City, Larsen played for five other teams until he retired after fourteen seasons with a losing career record.<ref name=nyt/>

 

''[[The New York Times]]'' called Larsen an "otherwise ordinary pitcher" who "for one day in 1956 was the picture of perfection."<ref name=nyt/>

   

   

Larsen died on New Years Day 2020 in a [[hospice]] in Hayden Lake in Kootenai County in northern [[Idaho]]. He had undergone unsuccessful radiation for esophageal [[cancer]].<ref name=nyt/>

Larsen died on New Years Day 2020 in a [[hospice]] in Hayden Lake in Kootenai County in northern [[Idaho]]. He had undergone unsuccessful radiation for esophageal [[cancer]].<ref name=nyt/>