Former New York Yankees pitcher Don Larsen has passed away at the age of 90.
According to Bill Madden of the New York Daily News, Larsen was in hospice care and died of esophageal cancer in Hayden Lake, Idaho.
Larsen built a lengthy MLB career, playing 15 seasons with seven different teams. He is perhaps best known for his five-year stretch (1955-59) with the Yankees.
It was in New York where Larsen entered baseball immortality. He would throw a perfect nine innings in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series at Yankee Stadium against the Brooklyn Dodgers.