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1955 World Series Pennant - Yankees vs. Dodgers
From 1941 through 1956, The New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers met an amazing seven times in a "Subway" World Series. The Bronx Bombers won the first five of these aforementioned inter-borough New York City matchups, but finally, in 1955, the Brooklyn Dodgers won the World Series for the only time as a Brooklyn team. In the next season, the Yankees and Dodgers would meet again in the World Series, with the Yankees winning their revenge, in seven games. In 1957, the Dodgers finished in 3rd place, and by 1958, they were in Los Angeles. The '55 Brooklyn team featured five future Hall of Famers in the regular line-up: catcher Roy Campanella, first baseman Gil Hodges, infielder Jackie Robinson (then a third baseman), shortstop Pee Wee Reese, and center fielder Duke Snider. Future Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda was briefly a Dodgers pitcher during the season, and he later joked that he was sent away because the Dodgers favored another left-hander over him, an "unknown" named Sandy Koufax, also a Hall of Famer. The team was managed by Hall of Fame manager Walter Alston. The skipper of the '55 Yankees was Hall of Fame manager Casey Stengel. Hall of Fame players on the team: Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Enos Slaughter, and Phil Rizzuto (released during the second half of the season and not on the Yankees' World Series roster). This '55 World Series included a nail-biting Game 7, won on Johhny Podres' shutout complete game, and a brilliant left field catch by the Dodgers' Sandy Amoros that saved the game for Brooklyn. The offered pennant measures 11x29". The pennant was mainly blue, now somewhat faded. In white numerals and lettering is "New York Yankees/Dodgers World Series 1955." There is a red, white and blue Yankees logo and the image of a blue Brooklyn Dodgers cap. The pennant is in immaculate condition, and it makes a marvelous collectible from the iconic Yankees-Dodgers rivalry and from the one season when the Brooklyn Dodgers finally ruled the world.
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