This Mitchell & Ness wool button-down jersey, white with dark blue pinstripes, sports the interlocking NY logo on the left breast. An “American League 1901-1951 Golden Anniversary” shield patch graces the left sleeve. Don Larson & Yogi Berra NY have signed and Inscribed the jersey “27 Up 27 Down” commemorating the Perfect Game by Larson on October 8, 1956. This item is presented in an Exhibition Quality Frame featuring a Yogi Berra Signed picture of Yogi shaking the great Babe Ruth’s hand. On October 8, 1956, in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series, pitcher Don Larsen of the New York Yankees threw a perfect game against the Brooklyn Dodgers at Yankee Stadium. It is the only perfect game in the history of the World Series. Larsen made his first start in a World Series in Game 4 of the 1955 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Larsen pitched four innings, allowing five runs on five hits and losing the game 8–3. The Dodgers won the series in seven games for their first world championship. The Yankees and Dodgers faced each other again in the 1956 World Series. Behind Sal Maglie, the Dodgers defeated the Yankees in Game 1. Casey Stengel, the manager of the Yankees, selected Larsen to start Game 2 against the Dodgers' Don Newcombe. Despite being given a 6–0 lead by the Yankees' batters, he lasted only 1+2⁄3 innings against the Dodgers in a 13–8 loss. He gave up only one hit, a single by Gil Hodges, but walked four batters, which led to four runs in the process, but none of them were earned because of an error by first baseman Joe Collins. The Yankees won Games 3 and 4 to tie the series at two games apiece. With the series tied at two games apiece, Larsen started Game 5 for the Yankees. Larsen's opponent in the game was Maglie. The Yankees scored two runs off Maglie, as Mickey Mantle hit a home run in the fourth inning and Hank Bauer hit a single for a run batted in two innings later. Larsen retired all 27 batters he faced to complete the perfect game. Larsen needed just 97 pitches to complete the game, and only one Dodger batter (Pee Wee Reese in the first inning) was able to get a three-ball count. In 1998, Larsen recalled, "I had great control. I never had that kind of control in my life." The closest the Dodgers came to a hit was in the second inning, when Jackie Robinson hit a line drive off third baseman Andy Carey's glove, the ball caroming to shortstop Gil McDougald, who threw Robinson out by a step, and in the fifth, when Mickey Mantle ran down Gil Hodges' deep fly ball in left center, making a spectacular backhanded catch. This item has been authenticated by Autographs for Sale and comes with their Letter of Authenticity.

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