brooklyn fell short of repeating next season, falling in 7 games yankees. year s team suffered ignominy in being on losing end of don larsen s perfect game in game 5, first of 2 no-hitters ever pitched in postseason play , in history of world series.
in both 1955 , 1956 world series, home team won first 6 games of world series, lost game 7. not until 1987 when home team won 7 games of world series. however, yankees meet unfortunate fate of being first american league team lose world series in home team won 7 games, in 2001.
the 1956 world series last subway series of 1900s , last include 1 of national league s charter franchises.
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