1957 World Series
1957 Major League Baseball championship series
The 1957 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's 1957 season. The 54th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the American League (AL) champion and defending World Series champion New York Yankees against the National League (NL) champion Milwaukee Braves. After finishing just one game behind the NL champion Brooklyn Dodgers in 1956, the Braves came back in 1957 to win their first pennant since moving from Boston in 1953. The Braves defeated the Yankees in seven games, behind Lew Burdette's three complete game victories, winning their first championship since 1914 (when the team was still based in Boston). This was the first professional sports championship ever won by a Milwaukee-based team.
The series featured the MVPs of both leagues, Mickey Mantle of the Yankees and Hank Aaron of the Braves, facing off for the first time in World Series history. In the decade of the 1950s, the Braves would be the fourth different team and the only non-New York based team to win the World Series. The other 3, the Yankees, Dodgers, and Giants were all based in New York at the time, but at the end of the 1957 season, both the Giants and Dodgers moved west to California for the 1958 season. In the decade of the 1950s, the Yankees won six world championships (1950-53, 56, & 58), the Dodgers won two (1955 in Brooklyn & 59 in Los Angeles), and the Giants (1954) and Braves won only one.
The Yankees had home field advantage in the series.
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