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The 1953 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1953 season.The 50th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the American League (AL) champion and four-time defending World Series champion New York Yankees against the National League (NL) champion Brooklyn Dodgers in a rematch of the 1952 Series, and the fourth such matchup ...
In a rematch of the previous season, the postseason began with Game 1 of the 50th World Series on September 30 and ended with Game 6 on October 5. The Yankees defeated the Dodgers, four games to two, capturing the 16th championship in franchise history, concluding their 5-year World Series winning streak, an all-time record. This was the fifth ...
Although the rivalry's significance arose from the two teams' numerous World Series meetings, [6] the Yankees and Dodgers did not meet in the World Series between 1981 [6] and 2024. They did not play each other again in a non-exhibition game until 2004, when they played a three-game interleague series. [ 8 ]
1953 World Series. Yankees 4, Dodgers 2. ... Yankee moment: Martin’s one-out, game-winning ninth-inning RBI single off Clem Labine gave the Yankees Game 6 and the Series. 1981 World Series.
The Yankees held on for a 6-5 Game 1 win, but the Dodgers won the Series, with Johnny Podres throwing an eight-hit shutout in a 2-0 Game 7 victory that gave Brooklyn its first championship after ...
The 1953 New York Yankees season was the 51st season for the team. The team finished with a record of 99–52, winning their 20th pennant, finishing 8.5 games ahead of the Cleveland Indians. New York was managed by Casey Stengel. The Yankees played their home games at Yankee Stadium. In the World Series, they defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers in 6 ...
On August 11, 1951 WCBS-TV in New York City televised the first baseball game (in which the Boston Braves beat the Brooklyn Dodgers by the score of 8–4) in color.On October 1 of that year, NBC aired the first coast-to-coast baseball telecast as the Brooklyn Dodgers were beaten by the New York Giants in the first game of a playoff series by the score of 3–1 featuring Bobby Thomson's two-run ...
The Dodgers had gone to the World Series in 1941, 1947, 1949, 1952 and 1953 — every time against their New York neighbors, the Yankees. The Dodgers lost, every time. On Oct. 4, 1955, the Dodgers ...