First World Series Memory?

[tornado]

Anyone else have a real, distant but interesting memory of the first World Series they can recall?

I know I am old, but I do have a very vague memory of the TV on when Don Larson threw his perfect game, but I definitely remember the White Sox on TV playing in the 1959 World Series.
I believe the 1959 Series ushered in the importance of the closer as Dodgers reliever Larry Sherry finished the 6-game series with 2 wins and 2 saves and was the Series MVP.

One other memory was that for game 7 of the 1960 World Series, our teacher brought a TV and allowed the entire class to watch all afternoon, and of course that game may well have been the most exciting game ever - a walk-off, game winning/Series winning home run in the bottom of the 9th!
Here's another oddity about that game...
It was a 10-9 slugfest with 7 pitching changes and yet took only 2 hrs & 36 minutes to complete.

[basketball nut]

Anyone else have a real, distant but interesting memory of the first World Series they can recall?

I know I am old, but I do have a very vague memory of the TV on when Don Larson threw his perfect game, but I definitely remember the White Sox on TV playing in the 1959 World Series.
I believe the 1959 Series ushered in the importance of the closer as Dodgers reliever Larry Sherry finished the 6-game series with 2 wins and 2 saves and was the Series MVP.

One other memory was that for game 7 of the 1960 World Series, our teacher brought a TV and allowed the entire class to watch all afternoon, and of course that game may well have been the most exciting game ever - a walk-off, game winning/Series winning home run in the bottom of the 9th!
Here's another oddity about that game...
It was a 10-9 slugfest with 7 pitching changes and yet took only 2 hrs & 36 minutes to complete.

That's what happens when you don't have 5 minutes of commercials every half inning. That was my chief complaint w/ the world series. The games took way too long.

As for my first real memory would be Mazeroski's home run. Of course we didn't have TV before I was about 10.

[wizard1]

World Series Memories

Since I'm older than dirt or most turtles, here's my earliest world series memory which goes way back to 1946. The Cardinals beat the Red Sox in a series where Stan Musial was a young newcomer and Red Schoendiest was almost as young. Harry "the cat" Brekeen pitched. But the best memory was Enos Slaughters mad dash from first base on a single to score what ended up being the winning run for the Cards. I was 11 years old and caught all of this on the old radio in my Grandparents basement. The broadcaster was a guy named Harry Carey and his color guy was Gabby Street!
Wiz

[tornado]

amazing wiz....they didn't have color TV or cable?

[Da Coach]

You're right wiz, I am not quite that old. My first World Series recollection was 1956. I had just become interested in baseball because of a few exciting White Sox players- rookie shortstop Luis Aparicio, steady 2nd baseman Nelson Fox, pitchers Billy Pierce, Dick Donovan, Gerry Staley and others. The White Sox didn't win the pennant, but I remember watching the 1956 World Series between the Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers, which went 7 games and featured great performances by Whitey Ford, Don Larsen, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Billy Martin, Duke Snider, Jackie Robinson, and others.
I even recall Enos Slaughter playing a key role with a 3-run homer for the Yankees that won game 3 after the Dodgers had won the first 2 games.
I have watched every World Series game since then!

By the 1957 World Series, I was really into baseball. I recall Milwaukee Braves pitcher Lew Burdette coming back after pitching a complete game shutout in Game 5 for the Braves and pitching another complete game shutout in Game 7 on 2-days rest when scheduled starter Warren Spahn became ill before the game! He ended up winning 3 of the WS games- all complete games, 2 of them shutouts to help the Braves beat the Yankees 4 games to 3.