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The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
The 1964 World Series, and the season leading up to it, later became the subject for the David Halberstam New York Times bestseller October 1964.The Series is seen as a bellwether point in baseball history as it was the last hurrah for the 1950s Yankee Dynasty of Mantle, Maris, Ford and Berra, among others, and it demonstrated that the National League's growing enthusiasm to sign black and ...
In both the 1955 and 1956 World Series, the home team won the first six games of the World Series, but lost Game 7. It would not be until 1987 when the home team won all seven games of a World Series. [14] However, the Yankees became the first American League team to lose a World Series in which the home team won all seven games, in 2001. [14] [15]
A rare feat: This was just the eighth time in the wild card era (since 1994) that the team with the best regular-season record won the World Series, with the 2024 Dodgers joining the 1998 Yankees ...
This was the first Subway Series between the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees (though the Yankees had already faced the crosstown New York Giants five times). These two teams would meet a total of seven times from 1941 to 1956 — the Dodgers' only victory coming in 1955 — with an additional five matchups after the Dodgers left for Los ...
Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Monday, February 10, 2025The New York Times. Hints for Today's Connections Sports Edition Categories on February 10, 2025.
Crosetti batted .269 in the Yankees' six-game victory over the New York Giants in the 1936 World Series, and drove in the winning run in the Yankees' 2–1 victory in Game 3. [5] The 1936 season was the first of a string of four World Series titles for Crosetti and the Yankees.
PHOTO: New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra (8) jumps into the arms of pitcher Don Larsen after Larsen pitched the first perfect game in World Series history, defeating the Dodgers 2-0 at New York ...