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	World Series - MSN Encarta
		The World Series is held in October and concludes the major league baseball season.
		The first World Series was held in 1903, when Barney Dreyfuss, owner of the NL champion Pittsburgh Pirates, challenged Henry Killilea, owner of the AL champion Boston Americans (later renamed the Boston Red Sox), to a best-of-nine-games series.
		The 1920 World Series, which matched the Cleveland Indians and the Brooklyn Dodgers (later the Los Angeles Dodgers), became memorable for one of baseball's rarest feats—the unassisted triple play.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563019/World_Series.html (1226 words)

	1955 World Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1955 World Series matched the Brooklyn Dodgers against the New York Yankees, with the Dodgers winning the Series in 7 games to capture the first championship in franchise history.
		The two teams were meeting in a World Series for the fifth time in nine years, with the Yankees having won in 1947, 1949, 1952 and 1953.
		The last time the Brooklyn franchise won a World Championship was in 1900.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1955_World_Series (566 words)

	The Sporting News: Baseball History of the World Series
		The 1919 World Series was, in fact, not honorably played by every participant, as was disclosed late in the 1920 season when confessions were made.
		A sharp shift in the betting odds shortly before the start of the World Series -- the highly favored White Sox suddenly became underdogs -- aroused curiosity, as did swirling rumors that something might be amiss in certain players' onfield effort.
		Plus, he hit the first Cincinnati batter of the Series, Morrie Rath, with a pitched ball, which supposedly was the signal to bettors that the fix was on.
	tsn.sportingnews.com /archives/worldseries/1919.html (711 words)

	Walter O'Malley : Dodger History : Team History : 1950's : 1955
		Perhaps the most memorable and satisfying season in Brooklyn Dodger history took place in 1955, as the skeletons of the previous 65 seasons were finally removed from the closet.
		It is still considered one of the greatest catches in World Series history because it shut down the mighty Yankees’ threat and they were not heard from again in the game.
		After having lost in the previous seven World Series appearances — 1916, 1920, 1941, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953 —; the Dodgers were finally victorious.
	www.walteromalley.com /hist_team_1955.php (910 words)

	Baseball Direct - Ultimate online source for baseball videos, books & calendars
		The official MLB highlight film of the '52 World Series, along with a World Series preview of the NL champion Dodgers, and a short wrap-up of the World Series produced by a national sports news service.
		The 1975 World Series between the Cincinnati Reds and the Boston Red Sox is treasured by baseball fans as one of the most exciting in history.
		This was the first trip to the World Series for the Angels, and the first since 1989 for the Giants, both wildcards this year.
	www.baseballdirect.com /world2.html (3123 words)

	The Sporting News: Baseball History of the World Series
		But despite the domination of their NL brethren, the Dodgers were, once again, up against a team that had made a habit of dominating them.
		Of the Dodgers' seven World Series setbacks, the last five had come at the hands of the Yanks.
		Dodgers ace Don Newcombe, a 20-game winner in 1955, was called upon in Game 1, but big Newk, never a winner in Series play, yielded two home runs to Joe Collins and a third to Yankee rookie Elston Howard as Brooklyn went down to a 6-5 defeat.
	www.sportingnews.com /archives/worldseries/1955.html (909 words)

	:: Welcome To The World Series Tickets :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		If the World Series tickets you wish to purchase are no longer available, we will present you with the option to purchase other tickets or to cancel the order.
		The first World Series between the AL and NL was in 1903.
		In 1951, the World Series was broadcast coast to coast in another subway series.
	www.theworldseriestickets.com (511 words)

	World Series - Related Items - MSN Encarta
		World Series - Related Items - MSN Encarta
		In 1994, for the first time in modern history, baseball failed to hold a World Series.
		The reason was a labor dispute that ended the season on August 12, the day on which the players, having failed to reach an agreement with the owners over salary structures and cost containment, staged a walkout....
	encarta.msn.com /related_761563019_0.58/1994_World_Series.html (88 words)

	1955 World Series by Baseball Almanac
		Whether the perennial champion Yankees, or their long-time rivals the Dodgers and Giants, the World Series (otherwise known the "Big Show") was becoming a New York institution and some writers joked that it should be given a permanent place on Broadway.
		The "Subway Series" as it was christened, was always a fan favorite and the '55 Series promised more competition than the previous meetings had.
		Of the Dodgers' seven World Series setbacks, the last five had come at the hands of the Yankees.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /ws/yr1955ws.shtml (2410 words)

	World Series stirs memories
		Brooklyn clubs had lost the World Series in 1916 (to the Boston Red Sox) and 1920 (to the Cleveland Indians), but those weren't as bad to fans of "Dem Bums" as the frustration they would know in the late 1940s and 1950s regarding the hated Yankees.
		The 1955 World Series included eight players bound for the Hall of Fame: Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider and Roy Campanella of the Dodgers; Mickey Mantle, Phil Rizzuto, Whitey Ford and Berra of the Yankees.
		Although rumors of wrong-doing surfaced during that series, nothing was done until September of 1920, when the eight Chicago players were called by a Grand Jury and suspended by their ball club.
	www.masslive.com /sports/republican/index.ssf?/base/sports-0/1130053341252100.xml&coll=1 (600 words)

	Getting hot at Series time can turn baseball no-names into October surprises - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While the World Series has provided a grander stage for some of the game's greats — among them Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Sandy Koufax, Willie Mays and Reggie Jackson — to showcase their talent, the Series has a tradition of producing improbable heroes, too.
		"He always explained to me that the atmosphere in the World Series was very electrifying and he told me that I had to settle down," says Scott Spiezio, an infielder and outfielder for the Cardinals this season.
		Before the 1972 World Series against the Reds, Tenace, a catcher for the A's, would have been a good candidate for whom to be pinch-hit, too.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/bbw/2006-10-18-world-series-heroes_x.htm (4827 words)

	CNN/SI - 1998 MLB Postseason - 1955 World Series
		Yet on the night of October 4 in the year 1955, there really was dancing in the streets of Brooklyn, and weeping for pure joy, too.
		Such was the seventh and deciding game of the first World Series ever won by the Brooklyn Dodgers.
		This is the one extra run that limits the enemy's maneuvering, alters his strategy and generally provides the team that has it with a pleasant added measure of comfort and confidence in times of stress like, say, the last three innings of the final game of the seven-game World Series.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/mlb/features/1998/wsarchive/1955.html (1175 words)

	Finding truth beyond the box score - The Boston Globe
		In ''Praying for Gil Hodges," Thomas Oliphant is writing not about the 2004 Boston Red Sox, but the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers, who that year beat the Yankees in the seventh game of the World Series.
		That truth emerges from the confluence of a team, a neighborhood, and a family, as Oliphant combines his skills as reporter (the objective recorder of facts) and columnist (the passionate arguer of subjective truths).
		The magnitude of the book's central event, the seventh game of the 1955 World Series, is underscored when Oliphant's parents urge their son to stay home from fifth grade to watch the game on television with his father.
	www.boston.com /sports/baseball/articles/2005/08/14/finding_truth_beyond_the_box_score/?page=1 (838 words)

	World Series Tickets - World Series Ticket Center
		The 1955 World Series saw the Brooklyn Dodgers defeat the New York Yankees in a dramatic game seven, and Johnny Podres was the MVP in the World Series.
		The 1956 World Series will always be remembered for Don Larsen, the Yankees pitcher, who threw the first and only perfect game in WS history.
		The World Series has a certain mystique about it, and it has to rank as one of the biggest games of the year, likely comparably with only the Super Bowl in football and the Stanley Cup in hockey.
	www.getticketshere.com /mlb/world_series_tickets.htm (607 words)

	Brooklyn Dodgers Movie Archives
		The 1947 World Series was the first of those great Yankee-Dodger classics filmed by Major League Baseball (the official World Series films began in 1943) includes highlights of the 1947 Series along with the 1947 All-Star game in Chicago totalling approximately 60min in length for viewing pleasure on DVD..
		Although Brooklyn had New York 2 years earlier in 1947, it was with a new crop of players that the Dodgers clubs of the 1950's that battled the Yankees in the World Series five of the next eight years.This fabulous DVD brings back all the memories of this World Series.
		Also included is a special World Series preview of the NL champion Brooklyn Dodgers, a summary of all the high spots of the Series by a TV sports news service of the 50's.
	www.bayou.com /~brooklyn/brookdvd.html (382 words)

	This Great Game 1955: Next Year at Last
		The Dodgers were in embarrassing company with the historically inept St. Louis Browns and Philadelphia Phillies as the three teams yet to win a World Series.
		This is the franchise that had been to seven previous World Series, and lost them all.
		An exception was Karl Spooner, a phenom who sensationally teased Dodger fans with two shutouts and 27 total strikeouts in two starting assignments at the end of 1954; but his pitching arm developed “severe tendinitis” in spring training and his potential was forever snuffed.
	www.thisgreatgame.com /1955.html (1968 words)

	Rare Sports Films - Vintage Baseball Video Sports Auto Racing Events
		At gametime, the 1955 World Series is tied at 2 games apiece as Dodger rookie Roger Craig makes his first W.S. start against Bob Grim of the Yankees at old Ebbets Field, Brooklyn!
		Only a very few complete baseball game TV broadcasts from pre-1965 are known to exist and all are World Series games.
		Because each complete game required at least five reels of kinescope film, the reels were easily lost and scattered, so when a TV broadcast did show up, it was always one or two reels (an inning or two) at best.
	www.raresportsfilms.com /1955worldtv.html (372 words)

	Amazon.com: Praying for Gil Hodges: A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgersc: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Praying for Gil Hodges is built around a detailed reconstruction of the seventh game of the 1955 World Series, which has always been on the short list of historic events in baseball lore.
		Thomas Oliphant's "Praying for Gil Hodges: A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers" goes a long way toward explaining why the universe, in Brooklyn at least, revolved around the beloved Brooklyn Dodgers.
		The book has a couple minor factual errors (Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto did play briefly after the 1955 Series), but this is over-shadowed by the tension the reader feels as the game heads into the late innings with Dodger hurler Johnny Podres holding a shaky 2-0 lead.
	www.amazon.com /Praying-Gil-Hodges-Brooklyn-Dodgersc/dp/031231762X (2271 words)

	Brooklyn Dodgers 1955 World Series Champions Framed Photographs with Nameplate
		The Brooklyn Dodgers ended the 1955 season with a 98-55 record (1st place in the National League), and stormed into the post season.
		On October 4, 1955, the Dodgers completed arguably the most memorabile seasons in team history by becoming World Series Champions and Johnny Podres was named World Series MVP.
		This framed piece commemorates the 1955 season by putting together an 8"x10" photo of Ebbets Field surrounded by six 4"x5" photos of the stars of this great team including Roy Campanella who won the NL MVP that year.
	www.onlinesports.com /pages/I,MM-FRBBDOD250.html (381 words)

	Welcome to Lelands.com - Lot 988. Gil Hodges 1955 Dodgers World Series Ring
		Once a year, to the roar of gigantic cheering throngs and to the accompaniment of heart-stopping joyous celebrating, the emotional presentation of the championship World Series Rings ranks as one of baseball’s grandest award-winning moments.
		But in the series finale--Game Seven, when Gil Hodges made the final out to end the game...well, you could have heard the sounds of celebrating all the way to...
		This well-earned 1955 Dodgers World Series ring, (size 11 1/2) was definitely presented to a much deserving Gil Hodges.
	www.lelands.com /bid.aspx?lot=988&auctionid=512 (406 words)

	Major League Baseball : History : World Series History
		Normalcy returned in 1955, as the Dodgers and Yankees resumed their rivalry after taking 1954 off.
		And Brooklyn evened the Series at two apiece with an 8-5 victory in Game 4.
		Podres escaped another jam in the eighth, then retired the Yankees in order in the ninth, and the Dodgers had finally won their first World Series.
	mlb.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/history/postseason/mlb_ws_recaps.jsp?feature=1955 (468 words)

	Dodgers 1955 World Series
		For this was the first time a team had won a seven -game world series after losing the first two games.
		But Mickey Mantle, a serious loss to the Bombers throughout the series was still out with his painfully torn leg muscle.
		Since the Yanks, who on Monday had squared the series by crushing the left-handed Karl Spooner with a five-run first-inning blast, were again being confronted by a southpaw, Stengel strung along with his right-handed batting power.
	www.acmewebpages.com /dodgers/1955team.htm (2612 words)

	1955 College World Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1955 NCAA Men's Division I College World Series (CWS) involved 8 schools playing in double-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college baseball.
		In 1996, Rod Dedeaux of USC was named to the College World Series All-Time Team (1947-95) by the Oklahoma World-Herald as part of the 50th CWS celebration.
		In 1996, Tom Borland of Oklahoma St was named to the 1940s-50s All-Decade Team by a panel of 60 voters representing CWS head coaches, media, and chairs of the Division I Baseball Committee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1955_College_World_Series (426 words)

	NPR : World Series? Wait a Minute...
		In the 1955 World Series, Sandy Amoros, born in Havana, Cuba, slides home with a run for the Brooklyn Dodgers as the New York Yankees' Yogi Berra tries to block the plate.
		Just when the 2001 World Series was about to start, someone asked me to pick a team, and make a bet.
		"The truth is that at the time when it was first called World Series the two teams were really the best teams in the world," he said.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4675711 (1438 words)

	ESPN.com - Page2 - Readers' List: Greatest World Series moments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Be sure to vote in the poll at left to crown the all-time greatest moment in World Series history.
		He had one at-bat in the whole series and it arguably won the title for the Dodgers.
		It was the climax of the greatest World Series ever and the final touches on the greatest individual game I have seen an athlete have.
	espn.go.com /page2/s/list/readers/greatest/worldseries/moments.html (1585 words)

	Powell's Books - Praying for Gil Hodges: A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn ...
		Praying for Gil Hodges is built around a detailed reconstruction of the seventh game of the 1955 World Series, which has always been on the short list of great moments in baseball history.
		Written with power and clarity, this is a brilliant work capturing the majesty of baseball, the issue of race in America, and the love that one young boy, his parents, and the borough of Brooklyn had for their team.
		A rich memoir and definitive account of one of the greatest games in the history of baseball: the 7th game of the 1955 World Series between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees when Brooklyn finally won the world championship.
	www.powells.com /biblio/1-0312317611-0 (1318 words)

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