| 1947 World Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | September 30 – October 6 | |||||||||
| Venue(s) | Yankee Stadium (New York) Ebbets Field (Brooklyn) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Bill McGowan (AL), Babe Pinelli (NL), Eddie Rommel (AL), Larry Goetz (NL), Jim Boyer (AL: outfield only), George Magerkurth (NL: outfield only) | |||||||||
| Hall of Famers | Umpire: Bill McGowan Yankees: Bucky Harris (mgr.) Yogi Berra Joe DiMaggio Phil Rizzuto Dodgers: Gil Hodges Pee Wee Reese Jackie Robinson Duke Snider (DNP) Arky Vaughan | |||||||||
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| Television | NBC (Games 1, 5) CBS (Games 3–4) DuMont (Games 2, 6–7) | |||||||||
| TV announcers | Bob Stanton (Games 1, 5) Bob Edge (Games 3–4) Bill Slater (Games 2, 6–7) | |||||||||
| Radio | Mutual | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | Mel Allen and Red Barber | |||||||||
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The 1947 World Series matched the New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Yankees won the Series in seven games for their 11th 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, a gap of 23 years, the longest between World Series appearances in history.[1][2]
In 1947, Jackie Robinson, a Brooklyn Dodger, desegregated major league baseball. For the first time in World Series history, a racially integrated team played.
This was the first World Series televised. However, TV broadcasting was still in its infancy, and thus the series was only seen in four markets via coaxial inter-connected stations: New York City; Philadelphia; Schenectady/Albany, New York; Washington, D.C.. Outside of New York, coverage was pooled.[3][4][5][6] The stations in those markets affiliated with NBC televised games 1 and 5; the DuMont stations had games 2, 6, and 7, and those affiliated with CBS broadcast games 3 and 4. [7][8]