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This was the 13th appearance by the Giants in Series play, their ninth loss, and their first appearance since the 1937 World Series. "The Commerce Comet arrives on the final voyage of the Yankee Clipper." (On the Yankees' side, the 1951 World Series was the first for Mickey Mantle and the final for Joe DiMaggio.)
In the World Series, they defeated the New York Giants in 6 games. This year was noted for a "changing of the guard" for the Yankees, as it was Joe DiMaggio's final season [1] and Mickey Mantle's first. The 1951 season also marked the first year of Bob Sheppard's long tenure as Yankee Stadium's public address announcer.
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]
This home run, hit at 3:58 p.m. EST on October 3, 1951, came to be known as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World". The phrase shot heard 'round the world is from a classic poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson , originally used to refer to the first clash of the American Revolutionary War and since used to apply to other dramatic moments, military and otherwise.
FAN FAVORITE: Kirby Connell is a most deserving Tennessee baseball fan favorite in College World Series. The 1951 roster also included a pitching staff of Huffstetler, Bill Joe Bowman, Bill O'Kain ...
The Yankees defeated the Giants, four games to two, capturing the 14th championship in franchise history, in the midst of a 5-year World Series winning streak. The 18th Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played on July 10, hosted by the Detroit Tigers at Briggs Stadium in Detroit, Michigan , with the National League winning, 8–3.
Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995), nicknamed "the Mick" and "the Commerce Comet", was an American professional baseball player who played his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career (1951–1968) with the New York Yankees, primarily as a center fielder.
The team's roster announced Friday did not include reliever Evan Phillips, whose outing in the clinching Game 6 of the National League Championship Series was cut short over injury concerns.