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Ranking every World Series winners in history

By Staff

UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 05: Brooklyn Dodgers president Walter O'Malley and his manager, Walter Alston, exchange hugs and grins after bringing Brooklyn its first World Series championship in history. Flock did it the hard way, winning the final game in Yankee Stadium. (Photo by NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 05: Brooklyn Dodgers president Walter O'Malley and his manager, Walter Alston, exchange hugs and grins after bringing Brooklyn its first World Series championship in history. Flock did it the hard way, winning the final game in Yankee Stadium. (Photo by NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images) /
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BROOKLYN, NY – OCTOBER 9: Shortstop Pee Wee Reese No. 1 of the Brooklyn Dodgers attempts to turn the double play as Hank Bauer of the New York Yankees slides into second base during the World Series game at Ebbets Field on October 9, 1956 in Brooklyn, New York. Clem Labine shut out the Yankees, 1-0, in front of 33, 224 fans. (Photo by Kidwiler Collection/Diamond Images/Getty Images)
BROOKLYN, NY – OCTOBER 9: Shortstop Pee Wee Reese No. 1 of the Brooklyn Dodgers attempts to turn the double play as Hank Bauer of the New York Yankees slides into second base during the World Series game at Ebbets Field on October 9, 1956 in Brooklyn, New York. Clem Labine shut out the Yankees, 1-0, in front of 33, 224 fans. (Photo by Kidwiler Collection/Diamond Images/Getty Images) /

70. 1956 New York Yankees

97-57, AL Champions, Won World Series 4-3 Over Brooklyn

Arguably the greatest season in Mickey Mantle’s amazing Hall of Fame career, The Mick won the Triple Crown in 1956 with a .353 batting average, 52 home runs and 130 RBI. Mantle also led all of Major League Baseball in runs scored (132), slugging percentage (.705), OPS (1.169), OPS+ (210) and total bases (376), and won the AL MVP Award for the first time.

Yogi Berra, the MVP runner-up to Mantle after winning the award in both 1954 and 1955, also put together one of his greatest seasons with a .298/.378/.534 slash with 30 home runs and 105 RBI. The two superstars anchored a lineup that scored 857 runs and hit 190 home runs, both of which led the league.

Hall of Famer Whitey Ford (19-6, 2.47) was the ace of a pitching staff that won 97 games in the regular season to earn the AL pennant by a commanding nine games over the Cleveland Indians, but the most memorable moment of the season was Don Larsen’s perfect game in Game 5 of the World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Larsen’s gem is the only perfect game in the history of the World Series, is still the only no-hitter after 111 Fall Classics have been played. It was the only no-hitter in the postseason until 2010.

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