1959 World Series
| 1959 World Series | |||||||||||||
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The Los Angeles Coliseum during Game 4.
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| Dates | October 1–8 | ||||||||||||
| MVP | Larry Sherry (Los Angeles) | ||||||||||||
| Umpires | Bill Summers (AL), Frank Dascoli (NL), Eddie Hurley (AL), Frank Secory (NL), Johnny Rice (AL: outfield only), Hal Dixon (NL: outfield only) | ||||||||||||
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Dodgers: Walt Alston (mgr.), Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, Duke Snider. White Sox: Al Lopez (mgr.), Luis Aparicio, Nellie Fox, Early Wynn. |
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| Television | NBC | ||||||||||||
| TV announcers | Jack Brickhouse and Vin Scully | ||||||||||||
| Radio | NBC | ||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | Mel Allen and By Saam | ||||||||||||
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| Team (Wins) | Manager | Season | |
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| Los Angeles Dodgers (4) | Walt Alston | 88–68, .564, GA: 2 | |
| Chicago White Sox (2) | Al Lopez | 94–60, .610, GA: 5 |
The 1959 World Series featured the National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers beating the American League champion Chicago White Sox, four games to two. Each of the three games played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum drew record crowds, Game 5's attendance of 92,706 continues to be a World Series record to this day.
It was the first pennant for the White Sox in 40 years (since the 1919 Black Sox Scandal). They would have to wait until their world championship season of 2005 to win another pennant. The Dodgers won their first pennant since moving from Brooklyn in 1958 by defeating the Milwaukee Braves, two games to none, in a best-of-three-games pennant playoff. It was the Dodgers' second World Series victory in five years, their first in Los Angeles, and marked the first championship for a West Coast team.
It was the first World Series in which no pitcher for either side pitched a complete game.
As Vin Scully remarked at the beginning of the official World Series film, "What a change of scenery!" This was the only Series from 1949 through 1964 in which no games were played in New York City, breaking the streak of the city that documentary filmmaker Ken Burns later called the 1950s' "Capital of Baseball".
After finishing seventh in 1958, the Dodgers rebounded in 1959. The National League pennant race was a season-long three-way battle between the Dodgers, the two-time defending N.L. champion Milwaukee Braves and the San Francisco Giants. The Dodgers never led by more than two games (and that was at the end of a tie-breaker) and never trailed by more than five. On September 20, the Dodgers completed a three-game sweep in San Francisco so that, with five games to play, they had a 1⁄2 game lead on the Braves and a one-game lead over the Giants. Going into the final day, the Dodgers and Braves were tied for first and the Giants were 1 1⁄2 games back; the Giants needed to sweep a doubleheader from the Cardinals and have the Dodgers and Braves both lose to force a three-way tie. But the Dodgers won in Chicago 7–1 and the Braves won at home against the Phillies 5–2; this made the fact that the Giants lost both games of their doubleheader irrelevant.
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