1941 Brooklyn Dodgers season
Leo Durocher's Dodgers win Brooklyn's first pennant in 21 years, then lose the World Series to the Yankees.
The 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers, managed by Leo Durocher, won the club's first National League pennant in 21 years, finishing two and a half games ahead of the St. Louis Cardinals. They lost the World Series to the New York Yankees, four games to one.
Quick Facts
- Season
- 1941
- League
- National League
- Ballpark
- Ebbets Field
- City
- Brooklyn, New York
- League place
- 1st
- Owners
- James & Dearie Mulvey, Brooklyn Trust Company
- President
- Larry MacPhail
- Managers
- Leo Durocher
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Background
First baseman Dolph Camilli hit 34 home runs with 120 RBI and was voted the National League's Most Valuable Player, and 22-year-old rookie Pete Reiser led the league in batting average, slugging and runs. Kirby Higbe and Whitlow Wyatt each won 22 games, and the Dodgers scored a league-high 800 runs. Bill James later listed the club among 'The Greatest Teams That Never Was'. In the World Series Brooklyn won only Game 2, 3-2 at Yankee Stadium behind Wyatt; the Yankees closed the series with a 3-1 win at Ebbets Field on October 6. A July 1 game against the Phillies in Brooklyn, broadcast by WNBT, was the first program aired by a commercial television station in the United States.
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