Perfect: Don Larsen's Miraculous World Series Game - Plot & Excerpts
Dale Mitchell’s appearance in Yankee Stadium at that pivotal moment in baseball history represents a true rags-to-riches story. He had grown up poor—“dirt poor,” as one of his sons remembered—in Colony, a town in western Oklahoma that the son recalled being little more than “a wide spot in the road.” There young Dale shared a small one-room wooden shack with his mother, his sister, and, when he deigned to appear from one of his frequent bouts with the bottle, his father. (Many years later, after he had become an All-Star outfielder in the American League, Mitchell drove his family to the home of his childhood, and, while they all sat in the car and stared at a pile of wood in the otherwise barren field, Mitchell’s younger son Bo asked his father what he was looking at. “That was my house right there,” Mitchell responded.) Dale was blessed with superior eye-hand coordination and good physical attributes, eventually carrying almost two hundred pounds on a six-foot-one-inch frame.
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