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This made Smith the only position player to be a starter (525+ plate appearances) on both non-Yankee AL pennant-winners in the Yankees’ 16-year (1949-64) run of 14 pennants (Al Lopez managed both teams). Gora's famous photograph of Smith. It was during the 1959 World Series that Smith would enter
The 1959 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1959 season. ... Al Smith doubled to left with two men on, cutting the lead to 4–3.
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]
December 10 – Joe Harris, 68, first baseman and outfielder whose Major League career included stints with the New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, Pittsburgh Pirates and Brooklyn Robins spanning ten seasons between 1914 and 1928, batting over .300 eight times, including a .323 mark to help the Senators to ...
Yankees – Red Sox game in 1959. The 1959 Major League Baseball season was played from April 9 to October 9, 1959. It saw the Los Angeles Dodgers, free of the strife produced by their move from Brooklyn the previous season, rebound to win the National League pennant after a two-game playoff against the Milwaukee Braves, who themselves had moved from Boston in 1953.
The 1959 Chicago White Sox season was the team's 59th season in the major leagues, and its 60th season overall. They finished with a record of 94–60, good enough to win the American League (AL) championship, five games ahead of the second place Cleveland Indians .
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In 2005, the White Sox won 99 games en route to their first division title in five years, their first postseason series win of any kind since the 1917 World Series (in the Division Series), their first World Series appearance since 1959, and their first World Series championship since 1917.