The 1947 World Series matched the New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Yankees won the Series in seven games for their first title since 1943, and their eleventh World Series championship in team history. Yankees manager Bucky Harris won the Series for the first time since managing the Washington Senators to their only title in 1924.

In 1947, Jackie Robinson, a Brooklyn Dodger, desegregated major league baseball. For the first time in World Series history, a racially integrated team played.

AL New York Yankees (4) vs. NL Brooklyn Dodgers (3)

There were 73,365 in the house for Game 1. Brooklyn starter Ralph Branca was knocked out in a five-run fifth by Johnny Lindell's two-run double. About the only highlight for Dodger fans came in the seventh, when Pee Wee Reese scored all the way from second base on a wild pitch.

Already ahead 6-2, the Yankees broke it wide open in the seventh, courtesy of Dodger relievers Hank Behrman and Rex Barney, with four singles, two wild pitches, two walks and an error turning the Yanks' advantage into 10-2. Allie Reynolds scattered nine hits in a complete-game win.

The series shifted to Ebbets Field and the stadium shook in the second inning as the Dodgers rang up six runs. Eddie Stanky's two-run double was the end for Yankee starter Bobo Newsom, but the runs kept coming with a Carl Furillo two-run double. The rest of the day, the Yankees pecked away. Sherm Lollar and Snuffy Stirnweiss provided RBI hits in the fourth. Brooklyn padded its lead to 9-4, but Joe DiMaggio and Yogi Berra homers suddenly made it 9-8. In a panic, Dodger fans let out a sigh of relief as reliever Hugh Casey set down Billy Johnson, Phil Rizzuto and Berra in order in the ninth.

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