Yogi Berra Day at Yankee Stadium on July 18, 1999 began with Don Larsen throwing a ceremonial first pitch to Berra.
Then David Cone went out and retired all 27 Montreal Expos in a 6-0 Yankees win, completing the 16th perfect game in MLB history.
Larsen had thrown the only perfect game in World Series history decades earlier.
Having that ceremony immediately precede another perfect game is the kind of baseball symmetry nobody could have planned.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “There’s an intellectual scientific vacuum that is descending upon the US and that has consequences. If you’re okay with the US losing its scientific leadership, you will get the country you voted for. That country is one where we will no longer innovate. We will be less secure, less healthy, and less wealthy because some community of people who influence what this country is do not see the value of science”