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The 1955 World Series proved to the only title the Dodgers won in Brooklyn. After losing the 1956 World Series to the Yankees, the team would move to Los Angeles after the 1957 season. [10] With the death of Carl Erskine in April 2024, Sandy Koufax became the last surviving player from the 1955 team. [11]
The 1955 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1955 season.The 52nd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the National League (NL) champion Brooklyn Dodgers against the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees, with the Dodgers winning the Series in seven games to capture their first championship in franchise history.
Robert Vilarian Borkowski (January 27, 1926 – November 18, 2017) was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1950 to 1955 with the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Dodgers. Listed at 6' 0" (1.83 m), 182 lb. (83 kg), Borkowski batted and threw right-handed. He was born and died in Dayton, Ohio.
After winning the pennant in 1941, the Dodgers would win six pennants in 10 years between 1947 and 1956, spurred on by the likes of Jackie Robinson, the first Black player in the modern major leagues.
The 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers season was the team's 65th season of play overall and its 58th season of play in the National League (NL) of Major League Baseball (MLB). The Dodgers finished in first place in the National League with a record of 94–60, five games ahead of the St. Louis Cardinals .
In October, the Dodgers reacquired him for pitcher Clyde King. He played mostly at Triple-A in 1953 and 1954 (when he returned to the Montreal Royals), but spent the entire 1955 season on Brooklyn's National League roster. Playing behind Roy Campanella and Rube Walker, Howell got into only 16 games (13 in the field and nine as a starting catcher).
The Dodgers' home uniform, which has remained relatively unchanged for 80 years, despite moving from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Dodgers are the second most successful franchise in the National League, the third-most successful, and the second-most wealthy in Major League Baseball after the New York Yankees. [1]
The Dodgers made the World Series in 1949, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, and 1959 (winning championships in 1955 and 1959) and were a historic pennant race away from making it in 1951, in part because they were the first to accept African American players. The 1951 season included a 14-game winning streak for the Dodgers against the Cardinals, the ...