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Damn Yankees
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the officially required number of at bats, mostly due to constantly being walked.
Yogi Berra was the league’s MVP, though two Indians were a close second and third, while Indians also represented four of the top six vote gatherers, essentially splitting the vote.
For more than 60 years, Cleveland had been the only team in
Major League Baseball to have compiled two different 11 game winning streaks within the same season.
However, their great regular season record would not be enough to win the World Series, as the Indians post-season pitching fell apart, and they got swept in four games by the New York Giants.