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The 1950 World Series was the 47th World Series between the American and National Leagues for the championship of Major League Baseball.The Philadelphia Phillies as 1950 champions of the National League and the New York Yankees, as 1950 American League champions, competed to win a best-of-seven game series.
Willie Stargell was named MLB MVP, LCS MVP, and World Series MVP in 1979. Six pitchers have won the Cy Young Award and the World Series MVP in the same season: Bob Turley (1958), Whitey Ford (1961), Koufax (1963, 1965), Bret Saberhagen (1985), Orel Hershiser (1988), and Johnson (2001). The Cy Young Award was initiated in 1956, as one award for ...
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 1950 New York Yankees season was the 48th season for the team. The team finished with a record of 98–56, winning their 17th pennant, finishing 3 games ahead of the Detroit Tigers. In the World Series, they defeated the Philadelphia Phillies in 4 games. New York was managed by Casey Stengel. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium.
The Yankees won the World Series again in 1996, and in 1998 began a run of three consecutive titles. From 1995 to 2007, the Yankees made the playoffs each year; their 13-season postseason streak was the second-longest in MLB history. [ 9 ]
The Yankees lost the 1957 World Series to the Milwaukee Braves when Lew Burdette won three games for the Braves and was awarded World Series MVP. [136] [137] Following the Series, the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers both left for San Francisco and Los Angeles, respectively. [138] This left the Yankees as New York's only baseball team.
1977 – World Series Trophy [6] 1978 – World Series Trophy; 1981 – William Harridge Trophy (American League champion) 1996 – Commissioner's Trophy (World Series) [6] 1997 (1996 New York Yankees) – Outstanding Team ESPY Award; 1998 – Commissioner's Trophy (World Series) 1998 – Baseball America Organization of the Year [7]
New York Yankees (1950, 1953–1967) Career highlights and awards; 10× All-Star (1954–1956, 1958, 1959, 1960–1961², 1964) 6× World Series champion (1950, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962) Cy Young Award (1961) World Series MVP (1961) 3× AL wins leader (1955, 1961, 1963) 2× MLB ERA leader (1956, 1958) New York Yankees No. 16 retired ...