1947 Brooklyn Dodgers season
Jackie Robinson's first season: a pennant, a seven-game World Series loss and the first Rookie of the Year award.
The 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers won the National League pennant with a 94-60 record, five games ahead of the St. Louis Cardinals, and lost the World Series to the New York Yankees in seven games. It was the season Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line.
Quick Facts
- Season
- 1947
- League
- National League
- Ballpark
- Ebbets Field
- City
- Brooklyn, New York
- League place
- 1st
- Owners
- James & Dearie Mulvey
- Walter O'Malley
- Branch Rickey
- John L. Smith
- President
- Branch Rickey
- Managers
- Clyde Sukeforth, Burt Shotton
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Background
Robinson started at first base on April 15, 1947, opening day at Ebbets Field, and became the first black player in the majors since Moses Fleetwood Walker in the 1880s. He batted .297, scored 125 runs, stole 29 bases and won the first Rookie of the Year award. Manager Leo Durocher had been suspended for the year, so coach Clyde Sukeforth ran the first two games and Burt Shotton managed the rest of the season. Brooklyn drew 1.8 million fans at home, then a National League record. In the World Series the Dodgers won Games 3, 4 and 6 but lost Game 7 5-2 at Yankee Stadium on October 6. The season was dramatised in the film 42.
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