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Hace 3 días · 1956 →. The 1955 World Series was the championship series to conclude the 1955 Major League Baseball (MLB) season. The Series matched the National League (NL) pennant winner Brooklyn Dodgers against the American League (AL) pennant winner New York Yankees, with the Dodgers winning the Series in seven games to capture their first ...
Hace 4 días · One of Stengel’s World Series-winning squads was a part of arguably the most memorable moment in World Series history: in game five of the 1956 series, with the Yankees and their rival Brooklyn Dodgers tied at two wins apiece, unheralded pitcher Don Larsen threw the only perfect game in postseason history, retiring all 27 opposing ...
Hace 3 días · Don Larsen won the 1956 World Series MVP after pitching the only no-hitter in World Series history, in the fifth game of the series; the no-hitter was also a perfect game.
Hace 4 días · Yankee Stadium, home to the most successful franchise in baseball history, would be the setting of many other notable baseball moments over the next 85 years—including Lou Gehrig’s July 4, 1939, goodbye speech, Don Larsen’s 1956 World Series perfect game, and Reggie Jackson’s three home runs in the Yankees’ clinching game ...
Hace 4 días · World Series. » 1950s WS. Share by E-Mail. Quiz # 291,647. Updated. Dec 03 21. # Qns. 10. Difficulty. Average. Avg Score. 7 / 10. Plays. 834. Awards. Top 10% Quiz. Last 3 plays: Guest 174 ( 4/10 ), ncrmd ( 9/10 ), Guest 172 ( 8/10 ). One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game. Question 1 of 10. 1.
Hace 2 días · Baker also became the seventh person in Major League history to win a World Series championship as both a player and a manager. He also became the third African-American manager to win a World Series after Cito Gaston (1992 and 1993) and Dave Roberts . 2023
Hace 3 días · The Indians won 111 games in 1954 but were swept by the New York Giants in a World Series that produced one of baseball’s most enduring images— Willie Mays’s over-the-shoulder catch of Indian Vic Wertz’s towering drive to deep center field in the first game.
