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  2. 1947 World Series - Wikipedia

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    In 1947, Jackie Robinson, a Brooklyn Dodger, desegregated major league baseball. For the first time in World Series history, a racially integrated team played. This was the first World Series televised.

  3. 1947 Major League Baseball season - Wikipedia

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    The 1947 major league baseball season began on April 15, 1947. The regular season ended on September 28, 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 44th World Series on September 30 and ended with Game 7 on ...

  4. List of World Series champions - Wikipedia

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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]

  5. 1947 in baseball - Wikipedia

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    October 6 – The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 5–2, in Game 7 of the World Series to win their eleventh World Championship, four games to three. This was the first World Series involving a nonwhite player, as Dodgers 1B Jackie Robinson had racially integrated Major League Baseball at the beginning of the season. It was also ...

  6. Bill Bevens - Wikipedia

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    However, in the 1947 season, his last year in the majors, he won only seven and lost 13. [3] [4] For 8 2 ⁄ 3 innings in Game 4 of the 1947 World Series Bevens had held the Dodgers hitless despite giving up a World Series record ten walks. The Yankees were nursing a 2–1 lead, with Brooklyn having scored their run in the 5th on two walks, a ...

  7. Baseball broadcasting firsts - Wikipedia

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    In 1947, The World Series was televised for the first time ever. [7] [8] The games were shown in on NBC over their WNBT channel (now WNBC). The broadcast was sponsored by Gillette and Ford. With only about 100,000 television sets in the country at the time, the 1947 World Series brought in an estimated 3.9 million viewers.

  8. Rickey Henderson's defining stolen bases record will likely ...

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    That first deal brought Henderson to the eventual World Series champions, as he was on base when Joe Carter hit his memorable walk-off home run to win it all for the Blue Jays in 1993. He starred ...

  9. Larry Doby - Wikipedia

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    He had a profound influence on the game of baseball, and he will be missed. As the first African American player in the American League, he helped lead the Cleveland Indians to their last World Series title in 1948, became a nine-time All-Star and was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998.