It wasn't the first Subway Series, or the last. But the 1955 World Series might well have been the best pitting one New York team against another. Especially if you were a long-suffering Brooklyn ...

The fact that former Yankee great Whitey Ford failed to complete the first game of the 1955 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers at Yankee Stadium was a negative, but the New York Yankees ...

On Oct. 4, 1955, the Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees, 2-0, in Game 7 of the World Series to win the first championship in franchise history.