The 1947 Yankes launched a remarkable record of winning

fifteen American League pennants and ten World

Championships between 1947-64.

 It was a veteran team. Joe DiMaggio, Phil Rizzuto, Tommy Henrich

 and Charlie Keller had returned from World War II military service.

 But it was also a team that introduced New York fans to rookies

 Yogi  Berra, Bobby Brown and Frank Shea. Allie Reynolds,

obtained in a  trade with Cleveland, was a nineteen-game winner,

and Joe Page  turned in an incredible year as baseball’s top relief

hurler. Picked to  finish no higher than third place at the start of the

season by most  baseball reporters, the 1947 Yankees won

nineteen  straight games in mid-season to easily win the pennant.

     The season concluded with a memorable World Series against

the Brooklyn Dodgers, led by Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese,

Gil Hodges, Ralph Branca and Pete Reiser. 

     It truly was the Dawn of a Dynasty.