| 1949 World Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 5–9 | |||||||||
| Venue(s) | Yankee Stadium (New York) Ebbets Field (Brooklyn) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Cal Hubbard (AL), Beans Reardon (NL), Art Passarella (AL), Lou Jorda (NL), Eddie Hurley (AL: outfield only), George Barr (NL: outfield only) | |||||||||
| Hall of Famers | Umpire: Cal Hubbard Yankees: Casey Stengel (mgr.) Yogi Berra Joe DiMaggio Johnny Mize Phil Rizzuto Dodgers: Roy Campanella Gil Hodges Duke Snider Pee Wee Reese Jackie Robinson | |||||||||
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| Television | NBC, CBS, ABC, DuMont | |||||||||
| TV announcers | Jim Britt | |||||||||
| Radio | Mutual | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | Mel Allen and Red Barber | |||||||||
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The 1949 World Series featured the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers, with the Yankees winning in five games for their second defeat of the Dodgers in three years, and the 12th championship in team history. This victory would start a record run of five straight World Series championships by the Yankees, and was also the first of 14 AL pennants in 16 years (1949–1964 except for 1954 and 1959) for the Yankees.
Both teams finished the regular season with exactly the same records and winning their respective leagues by one game.
With improvements in the then-infant television medium, the broadcast of the World Series could now be seen east of the Mississippi River.[1] For the second consecutive season, the games were open to any channel with an affiliation with one of the national broadcast networks: NBC, CBS, ABC, or DuMont.[2]