page_title: 1959 World Series
hierarchical_section_title: 1959 World Series
caption_attribution_description: I believe this is Game 4 based on the other slide I have. Roger Craig was the starter for the Dodgers.
context_page_description: The 1959 World Series featured the National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers beating the American League champion Chicago White Sox, 4–2. Each of the three games played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum drew record crowds, Game 5's attendance of 92,706 continues to be a World Series record to this day, and one which cannot feasibly be broken in any modern ballpark.
  It was the first pennant for the White Sox in 40 years. They would have to wait until their world championship season of 2005 to win another pennant. The Dodgers won their first pennant since moving from Brooklyn in 1958 by defeating the Milwaukee Braves, 2–0, in a best-of-three-games pennant playoff. It was the Dodgers' second World Series victory in five years, their first in Los Angeles, and marked the first championship for a West Coast team.
  It was the first World Series in which no pitcher for either side pitched a complete game.
  As Vin Scully remarked in his narration for the official World Series film, "What a change of scenery!"
context_section_description: The 1959 World Series featured the National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers beating the American League champion Chicago White Sox,  4–2. Each of the three games played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum drew record crowds, Game 5's attendance of 92,706 continues to be a World Series record to this day, and one which cannot feasibly be broken in any modern ballpark.
  It was the first pennant for the White Sox in 40 years (since the 1919 Black Sox Scandal).  They would have to wait until their world championship season of 2005 to win another pennant.  The Dodgers won their first pennant since moving from Brooklyn in 1958 by defeating the Milwaukee Braves, 2–0, in a best-of-three-games pennant playoff.  It was the Dodgers' second World Series victory in five years, their first in Los Angeles, and marked the first championship for a West Coast team.
  It was the first World Series in which no pitcher for either side pitched a complete game.
  As Vin Scully remarked in his narration for the official World Series film, "What a change of scenery!"  This was the only Fall Classic played during the period from 1949 through 1964 in which no games were played in New York City, breaking the streak of the city that documentary filmmaker Ken Burns later called the era's "Capital of Baseball".
caption: The Los Angeles Coliseum during Game 4.
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