The 1962 series was the fourth tie-breaker playoff in the National League's 87 years of operation, with all four happening within 17 years, with the previous series have followed the 1946, 1951 and 1959 seasons. Moreover, all four involved the Dodgers' franchise, which won one of those series (1959's) and lost the other three. It was the last MLB tie-breaker to use a best-of-three games format, as the NL subsequently adopted the single-game style used in the American League (AL).