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Perfect Memory

NPR

Published October 25, 2000 at 9:00 PM PDT

Commentator Phillip Hoose, a cousin of New York Yankee Don Larsen, remembers a pivitol time in his life when the pitcher's career achievement (throwing a perfect game in the 1956 World Series) helped his status at school.