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The 1953 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1953 season.The 50th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the American League (AL) champion and four-time defending World Series champion New York Yankees against the National League (NL) champion Brooklyn Dodgers in a rematch of the 1952 Series, and the fourth such matchup ...
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]
In a rematch of the previous season, the postseason began with Game 1 of the 50th World Series on September 30 and ended with Game 6 on October 5. The Yankees defeated the Dodgers, four games to two, capturing the 16th championship in franchise history, concluding their 5-year World Series winning streak, an all-time record. This was the fifth ...
The Yankees and Dodgers will meet in the 1953 World Series for the second straight year and the fourth time in seven years. September 16 – Hall-of-Fame former second baseman Rogers Hornsby resigns as manager of the sixth place, 64–82 Cincinnati Redlegs.
The 1943 World Series between the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals was the first to have an accompanying World Series highlight film. Initially, the films were created as gifts to troops fighting in World War II , to give them a brief recap of baseball action back home.
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The 1953 New York Yankees season was the 51st season for the team. The team finished with a record of 99–52, winning their 20th pennant, finishing 8.5 games ahead of the Cleveland Indians. New York was managed by Casey Stengel. The Yankees played their home games at Yankee Stadium. In the World Series, they defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers in 6 ...
From 1949 to 1953, the Yankees won the World Series five years in a row; from 1936 to 1939 the Yankees won four World Series Championships in a row. There are only two other occasions when a team has won at least three consecutive World Series: 1972 to 1974 by the Oakland Athletics , and 1998 to 2000 by the Yankees.