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Yankee
Perfect Games
Don
Larsen - October 8, 1956
 
The only
perfect game in World Series history.
David
Wells - May 17, 1998
Pat Meares lifted a fly
ball to right field as David Wells looked on with unabated anticipation. He hopped up and
down while the ball lazily drifted to Paul O'Neill, who was chasing it towards the right
field line. Finally, the ball plopped into O'Neill's glove and Wells could
celebrate. He pumped his fist twice as a mob of Yankees swarmed him on the pitching mound
while the crowd erupted into a standing ovation. The Yankees lifted Wells onto their
shoulder and allowed him to bask in the limelight in eerily similar fashion to what
happened to Doc Gooden in 1996. On this day -May 17, 1998 - Wells had done something only
one other pitcher had done in the illustrious history of the New York Yankees: he had
thrown a perfect game. (Yankees.com)
David Cone - July 18, 1999
 
David Cone picked a perfect day for a perfect
game.
With Don Larsen sitting behind home plate, Cone dazzled the Montreal
Expos with a wide assortment of pitches Sunday, throwing the 16th perfect
game in major-league history to lead the Yankees to a 6-0 victory.
On the same field where Larsen pitched a perfect game against Brooklyn in
Game 5 of the 1956 World Series, Cone pitched the first no-hitter in the
three-year history of interleague play.
Cone got Orlando Cabrera to hit a foul pop to third baseman Scott Brosius
for the final out. Cone dropped to his knees and was mobbed by his
teammates, just as David Wells was last year when he pitched the only other
regular-season perfect game in Yankees' history. - (Yankees.com)
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