27 Men Out: Baseball's Perfect Games

Now in paperback, Michael Coffey's wonderful book about baseball's holy grail, the perfect game: "The best baseball book of the...season" (Booklist).

There have been only fifteen perfect games pitched in the modern era of baseball: The great Cy Young fittingly hurled the first one, in 1904, and Randy Johnson pitched the last one, in May 2004. In between, some great and famous pitchers-Sandy Koufax, Catfish Hunter, Jim Bunning, and Don Larsen-performed the feat, as did those lesser-known, lik...