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Damn Yankees
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prevailed 10-6 with Coleman driving in three runs and Brown and DiMaggio both collecting two RBIs each. "Joe D," who missed half of the season because of an injury, but still batted .346 with sixty-seven RBIs in seventy-six regular season games, struggled overall in the Series, but added a bases empty homer in the fourth. Although it was the Yankees twelfth World Series title, it was Casey Stengel's first and there were many more to come. During the celebration after the game, Del Webb said of Stengel to the press; "I knew he would win, whether we got some more players for him or not."
Joe Page of the New York Yankees won the first ever Most Valuable Player Award during the 1949 World Series.