At the start of the 1947 baseball season, reporters projected the
Boston Red Sox would repeat as American League champions. The New
York Yankees were picked to finish no higher than third place. The
reporters were wrong. The Yankees were a veteran team as Joe
DiMaggio, Phil Rizzuto, Tommy Henrich, and Charlie Keller returned
from World War II military service. It was also a team that
introduced New York fans to rookies Yogi Berra, Bobby Brown, and
Frank Shea. The team saw stand-out performances from players such
as Allie Reynolds, who was obtained in a trade with Cleveland and
was a nineteen-game winner, and Joe Page, who became baseball's top
relief hurler that same year. Frank Strauss was a twelve-year-old
fan in 1947; he kept meticulous scrapbooks and even met some of the
players. In "Dawn of a Dynasty," he relives for readers how this
team won nineteen straight games in midseason and later claimed the
pennant-then capped the season with a memorable World Series win
against the Brooklyn Dodgers. The unforgettable 1947 Yankee team
launched a remarkable record of winning fifteen American League
pennants and ten World Championships between 1947 and 1964 and
truly marked the "Dawn of a Dynasty."
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