#ICYMI: Baseball: The Perfect Game

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🗓️ 2 November 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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There have only been 23 perfect games in baseball’s 140-year history – and only one in the World Series, by Don Larsen in 1956. Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore what it takes to throw a perfect game, with guests Neil Tyson and Houston Astros announcer Geoff Blum. Don’t miss an episode of Playing with Science. Subscribe to our channels on: TuneIn: tunein.com/playingwithscience Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/playing-with-science/id1198280360 GooglePlay Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Iimke5bwpoh2nb25swchmw6kzjq SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/startalk_playing-with-science Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/startalk/playing-with-science NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/baseball-the-perfect-game/ Photo Credit: AP file photo via San Diego Union Tribune at http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/aztecs/sd-sp-larsen-1008-story.html

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0:00.0	I'm Gary O'Reilly. And I'm Chuck Nice. This is playing with science.
0:15.3	Today we go to the limits of sporting possibility and ask, is it so hard to achieve sporting
0:21.5	perfection? Really? Really? Is it that difficult to achieve a perfect
0:25.9	ten in gymnastics so tough to go a whole season unbeaten in the NFL or even pitch a
0:32.3	perfect game? I mean no hits full-stop. Yes and if we're gonna go there then we
0:37.8	certainly need a co-pilot and who better than the man himself speaking of
0:41.8	perfect Dr. Neil deGrasse Koi-san! Why do you make me wear this now?
0:48.6	You start by the store on the way in. No, no, I'm only I'm born and raised in the Bronx.
0:53.3	So for those of you who don't have the benefit of watching us on starttalkallaccess.com
0:59.5	if you're just listening Neil is in full Yankee regale. Yeah, I got the hat jacket.
1:06.4	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm a legit Yankee fan born and raised in the Bronx.
1:11.0	He's what we call a bomber legacy. And I'll tell you this in my formative
1:15.7	kid years where you know that's when you're most likely to be a Yankee fan.
1:19.5	A baseball fan when your dad takes you to the game kind of thing. That was the
1:25.5	driest episode of Yankee franchise there ever was. I was a fan during the
1:30.8	awful awful years. People don't know that the Yankees had during the 80s. They
1:36.0	were a bad bad. And I'm talking about even 70s before for Reggie Jackson.
1:42.6	Well, Reggie Jackson, baseball fans around the world, welling up right now. We'd
1:47.4	laughed. Really out to what the Yankees were bad. They went like a dozen years
1:52.5	without without getting into the big drought. That's a drought for the Yankee. I'm sorry.
1:56.6	Yeah, that's a drought. It is. I'm boiling in this jacket. I got to take off the jacket off.
2:01.9	Yeah. And while you're doing that, we better get to our guests. Yes, because
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