"New York Yankees 2, Brooklyn Dodgers 0"
Newspaper article
By: Shirley Povich
Date: October 9, 1956
Source: Povich, Shirley. "New York Yankees 2, Brooklyn Dodgers 0." Washington Post, October 9, 1956. Reprinted in Baseball Reader. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983, 357–361.
About the Author: Shirley Povich (1905–1998) was one of the great sportswriters of the twentieth century. A writer for the Washington Post his entire career, it is estimated that he wrote over fifteen hundred columns during a nearly seventy-five year career. Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee repeatedly said that Povich was the sole reason that many people bought that paper. The National Baseball Hall of Fame honored him in 1975 as the recipient of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for "meritorious contributions to baseball writing."
Introduction
The New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers faced off in the 1956...
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