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Joined: Sun Sep 16, 2007 9:30 pm Posts: 11255 Location: Brooklyn to New Jersey
1955: The Dodgers take the lead in the NL from the start of the season, and were never challenged as they walked away win the Pennant by 13 and a half games with a 98-55 record. Catcher Roy Campanella wins his 3rd MVP award, while OF Duke Snider, has one of his most productive seasons. On the mound Don Newcombe with a 20-5 record paces the league's best pitching staff. The Dodgers would face the New York Yankee in the World Series for the 6th time in 15 years. The Dodgers would lose the first two games in Yankee Stadiums giving fans that sickening feeling of deja vu. However Johnny Podres with a Complete Game in Game 3 , would get the Dodgers on the board. The Dodgers would win the next 2 games to return to the Bronx up 3 games to 2. However, after the Yankees used a 5-run 1st inning to force Game 7 some fans used to heartbreak began their familiar refrain "wait 'till next year." Game 7 was to be started by Johnny Podres, who all ready shut down the Yankees once in the Series. While the Dodgers grabbed a 2-0 lead, the Yankees had men on base all day, but Podres kept them off the board. In the 6th inning Yogi Berra sent a screaming line drive down the leftfield line that seemed destined to break Dodgers hearts, but Sandy Amoros made a brilliant catch running toward the line, and was able to double Gil Mc Dougal off at first. That ended up being the last Yankee threat. Podres kept the score where it was at and the Dodgers would win their first World Series. There was no more wait 'til next year, 1955 was next year!!!
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Joined: Sun Sep 16, 2007 9:30 pm Posts: 11255 Location: Brooklyn to New Jersey
tonypug wrote:
A very satisfying year. There I was eight years old and thinking I would have many more years of great Brooklyn Dodger baseball.
Robert: I thought the exact same thing. Especially after the Dodgers won the first 2 games of the 1956 series........I thought: this is great.....now WE are the Yankees! O'Malley had other plans, snatching our Bums 3,000 miles away where they would win 5 more WS titles with "LA" on their caps! Oh NOOOOOOOOO
_________________ You can take the DODGERS out of BROOKLYN but you can't take BROOKLYN out of the DODGERS
Joined: Sun Sep 16, 2007 9:30 pm Posts: 11255 Location: Brooklyn to New Jersey
Robert: I think if the Brooklyn Dodgers had won many of those world series ('41,'47,'49,'52, etc.).....the Dodgers NEVER would have been able to move. O'Malley just couldn't have pulled a perennial World Champ out of Brooklyn......never!
_________________ You can take the DODGERS out of BROOKLYN but you can't take BROOKLYN out of the DODGERS
Pete, remember O'Malley wanted to get out from under the shadow of Branch Rickey and build his own legacy. That more then anything motivated him to move. As long as the Dodgers stayed in Brooklyn it would have always been Branch Rickey's team.
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