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Sports Week featuring highlight moments from a week in sports history.

Today's Sports Week recaptures the thrills of one of the greatest moments in baseball history.

Since the origination of this series some 17 weeks ago, we've never repeated an episode.

However, this week, we'd like to break that rule for a special reason.

During the 1959 Winter Inter League trading period,

the New York Yankees and the Kansas City athletics

swapped several players.

Involved were fellows like Norm Seaburn Mark Thronberry, Roger Maris, and Joe

Demestry, and two of the old pros of the once powerful Yankees, Hank Fowler, and Don Larson.

Well, the trading of Larson brought back memories of his greatest day, the fifth game of the

1956 World Series when he performed the miracle of baseball, pitching a perfect game. And so today on Sports Week, we'd like to play for you again the actual play-by-play description of that historic moment.

The date is October 8, 1956, the Place Yankees Stadium, New York City.

The event is the fifth game of the World Series between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York

Yankees.

To briefly set the scene, the Dodgers had won the first two games played in Ebbets Field.

The Yankees came back to take the next two in Yankee Stadium. And so here was the big one,

the game that would give one team the edge three games to two. The Dodgers called on their

veteran Sal the Barbara Magley, the 39-year-old wizard, discarded by the Giants and the Indians,

but a fellow who had pitched the Dodgers to the National League pennant.

He had beaten the Yankees in the opening game,

and now he was called on to give them an important edge in this fifth game.

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