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The 1949 World Series featured the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers, with the Yankees winning in five games for their second defeat of the Dodgers in three years, and the 12th championship in team history. This victory started a record run of five straight World Series championships by the Yankees, and was also the first of 14 AL pennants ...
The 1949 major league baseball season began on April 18, 1949. The regular season ended on October 2, with the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees as the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The postseason began with Game 1 of the 46th World Series on October 5
The 1943 World Series between the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals was the first to have an accompanying World Series highlight film.Initially, the films were created as gifts to troops fighting in World War II, to give them a brief recap of baseball action back home.
The Yankees vs. Dodgers is the most common World Series matchup, so take a look back before they meet again. ... 1947 World Series: Yankees 4, Dodgers 3. 1949 World Series: Yankees 4, Dodgers 1 ...
1949 World Series. Yankees 4, Dodgers 1. Tommy Henrich becomes the first player to hit a walk-off World Series home run, winning Game 1, 1-0, with a leadoff shot in the ninth to wreck a great ...
June 25 – College World Series - Texas Longhorns defeated Wake Forest 10 to 3; The New York Yankees won the World Series over the Brooklyn Dodgers four games to one. December 5 – Hiroshima Carp, officially founded, with participation in Central League of Japan. [citation needed]
In the 1949 World Series he hit .400 in three games, and in the 1950 World Series, Woodling hit .429. [1] [11] Woodling hit a solo home run in each World Series from 1951 through 1953, [11] and, in 1951, helped Allie Reynolds secure his first of two no-hitters on the season, when he homered in a 1–0 win over Bob Feller and the Indians. [16]
Facing the Yankees again in the 1949 World Series, he batted only .235 but drove in the sole run in Brooklyn's only victory, a 1–0 triumph in Game 2. In Game 5, he hit a two-out, three-run homer in the seventh to pull the Dodgers within 10–6, but struck out to end the game and the Series. [7]