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The names. For a baseball fan, it's impossible to think of the Dodger and Yankee teams of the 1940s and '50s and not marvel at the names. Jackie Robinson, Mickey Mantle, Roy Campanella, Whitey Ford, Pee Wee Reese, Yogi Berra, Duke Snider -- two clubs positively brimming with Hall of Famers. By the time they met in the 1955 World Series, however, the Yankees had already won 16 titles; the Dodgers, exactly none. Now, 55 years later, in a gallery of rare and never-seen photos, LIFE recalls the epic, seven-game Subway Series when "Dem Bums" won their first -- and, as it turned out, their only -- world championship, cementing their place in Brooklyn lore and baseball legend. Above: An unpublished photo by LIFE's Ralph Morse. From left, leaving the field after Game 3: Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, winning pitcher Johnny Podres, Pee Wee Reese, Jim "Junior" Gilliam, and Gil Hodges. Three of the six -- Robinson, Campanella, and Reese -- went on to the Hall of Fame.
Thank you. I grew up in a household that was loyal to the Dodgers. I mean, of course, the Brooklyn Dodgers. My Dad, to his dying day, remained a Brooklyn fan in his heart.
Thank you. I grew up in a household that was loyal to the Dodgers. I mean, of course, the Brooklyn Dodgers. My Dad, to his dying day, remained a Brooklyn fan in his heart.
I've read every book about New York baseball that I've known about. Did you know that at least one New York team was in the World Series every year from 1949 to 1964 except 1959? And that including the years after the Dodgers and Giants moved west at least one of these three clubs played in the Series every year from 1949 to 1966? Or that from 1943 to 1960 the Yankees won 12 pennants and 9 World Series but their winningest year during that stretch was 1954 when they finished 8 games behind Cleveland?
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