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The 1955 World Series proved to the only title the Dodgers won in Brooklyn. After losing the 1956 World Series to the Yankees, the team would move to Los Angeles after the 1957 season. [10] With the death of Carl Erskine in April 2024, Sandy Koufax became the last surviving player from the 1955 team. [11]
The 1955 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1955 season.The 52nd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the National League (NL) champion Brooklyn Dodgers against the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees, with the Dodgers winning the Series in seven games to capture their first championship in franchise history.
Kansas City Athletics first game in Municipal Stadium, 1955.. The 1955 major league baseball season began on April 11, 1955. The regular season ended on September 25, with the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees as the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively.
April 13 – The eventual combatants in the 1955 World Series, the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees, get their seasons off on the right foot. At Ebbets Field, Carl Erskine tosses a complete game and Brooklyn scores five sixth-inning runs (helped by homers from Jim Gilliam and Carl Furillo) as the Dodgers breeze past the Pittsburgh Pirates, 6
The Dodgers made the World Series in 1949, 1952, 1953, 1955, and 1956 (winning championships in 1955) and were a historic pennant race away from making it in 1951, in part because they were the first to accept African American players. The 1951 season included a 14-game winning streak for the Dodgers against the Cardinals, the longest such ...
It was 1883, and Byrne was forming a baseball team – one which would eventually go on to be known as the Brooklyn Dodgers. Big spenders. ... In 1955, the Dodgers – beaten by the Yankees in ...
In 1955, the year the Dodgers finally brought a world championship to Brooklyn, Labine led the NL with 60 games pitched and 10 relief victories, and earned a career-best 13 wins overall. Although the save was not yet an official statistic, Labine has been retroactively credited with leading the NL twice (1956 and '57) in that category, with 19 ...
The Boys of Summer is a 1972 non-fiction baseball book by Roger Kahn.After recounting his childhood in Brooklyn and his life as a young reporter on the New York Herald Tribune, the author relates some history of the Brooklyn Dodgers up to their victory in the 1955 World Series.