‘Only player in World Series to throw perfect game’ dies of cancer at 90

Don Larsen is shown at a benefit in New York honoring his 1956 perfect game, when he retired all 27 Brooklyn Dodgers he faced [COURTESY]

Journeyman pitcher Don Larsen, the only player in World Series history to throw a perfect game, died of cancer on Wednesday. He was 90.

Larsen's family spokesman Andrew Levy said the former New York Yankee died from cancer of the esophagus in Hayden, Idaho.