⚾ Autographed/Signed Don Larsen WS PG 10-8-56 New York Yankees Grey Baseball Jersey — Beckett BAS COA — Michigan City, Indiana — New York Yankees — October 8, 1956 — The Only Perfect Game in World Series History — BAS COA

⚾ This New York Yankees grey road baseball jersey has been personally signed by Don Larsen, the only pitcher in professional baseball history to throw a perfect game in the World Series, and authenticated by Beckett Authentication Services — one of the two most widely recognized authentication companies in sports memorabilia, whose COA guarantees the signature's authenticity and provides permanent documentation through the Beckett registry. Don Larsen typically accompanied his signature with the inscription 'WS PG 10-8-56' — World Series, Perfect Game, October 8, 1956. Those five characters summarize the single achievement that separated Don Larsen from every other pitcher who has ever walked to a major league mound. No one else has thrown a perfect game in the World Series. No one else has thrown a no-hitter in the World Series. No one else has approached either. Condition: NOS.

🌟 Michigan City, Indiana — The Making of an Unlikely Legend

🌟 Don James Larsen was born on August 7, 1929, in Michigan City, Indiana — a city on the southern shore of Lake Michigan that carries the industrial and working-class character of the Great Lakes region. Larsen grew up during the Depression and World War II era, playing baseball through the American developmental pipeline that eventually led to a professional contract and a career that wound through St. Louis, Baltimore, and New York without ever suggesting that the name Don Larsen would be attached to the most perfect single pitching performance in the sport's most celebrated annual event. He was, by most conventional accounts of his career, a competent but inconsistent pitcher whose performance fluctuated enough to create uncertainty about his value. None of that matters in the history of baseball, because of what happened in October 1956 when he stepped onto the mound at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. Condition: NOS.

🏆 October 8, 1956 — The Only Perfect Game in World Series History

🏆 Game 5 of the 1956 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx began on October 8, 1956, with Don Larsen taking the mound for New York against Sal Maglie for Brooklyn. The Dodgers were defending World Series champions — they had beaten the Yankees the year before in 1955, the only World Series title in Brooklyn Dodgers history. What followed over the next two hours and six minutes was the most perfect single game performance in the history of professional baseball: Larsen retired 27 consecutive batters without allowing a hit, a walk, or a hit batter. Twenty-seven up. Twenty-seven down. Not a single Dodger reached base. The final out came when pinch-hitter Dale Mitchell took a called third strike from home plate umpire Babe Pinelli, who was working his final game as a major league umpire before retirement. Yogi Berra, who caught every pitch of Larsen's masterpiece, jumped from behind the plate and ran to the mound and leaped into Larsen's arms — a moment captured in one of the most reproduced photographs in baseball history. Condition: NOS.

⭐ The Context That Makes the Achievement Permanent

⭐ A perfect game is the rarest feat in professional baseball — 27 consecutive batters retired with no hits, no walks, no errors, no baserunners of any kind. In the regular season, perfect games occur perhaps once every few years, achieved by pitchers at the peak of their command on days when everything aligns. In the World Series — the highest-stakes, most-watched baseball in the sport — a perfect game had never been thrown before Larsen did it in 1956, and it has never been thrown since. The significance of the game was amplified by the context: the defending champion Brooklyn Dodgers, Game 5 of a seven-game series, Yankee Stadium in October. Larsen threw 97 pitches. He never went to a three-ball count. The Yankees won 2-0 and went on to win the World Series in seven games. The grey road jersey in this listing carries the signature of the only man who has ever pitched a World Series perfect game. Condition: NOS.

🌟 WS PG 10-8-56 — The Inscription That Documents Everything

🌟 Don Larsen adopted the inscription 'WS PG 10-8-56' as the accompanying notation to his signature across decades of autograph sessions — a compressed documentation of the World Series Perfect Game on October 8, 1956, that he included to confirm exactly what he was known for and what his signature represented. The inscription is as much a part of the authentic Larsen autograph experience as the signature itself, and this Beckett BAS COA covers both the signature and the context it carries. Larsen passed away on January 1, 2020, at age 90, making his autographed items part of a finite collection that cannot be added to. Condition: NOS.

⚾🌟 Don Larsen. Michigan City, Indiana. New York Yankees. October 8, 1956 — the only perfect game in World Series history. 27 up, 27 down. Yogi Berra running to the mound. WS PG 10-8-56. New York grey road jersey, personally signed, Beckett BAS COA. Condition: NOS.