MLB Showdown Obsession

  In the first couple decades of the World Series era, the baseball landscape in New York was dominated not by the Yankees, but by the Giants. By the 1920's, the Giants had accumulated 8 pennants and the 1905 title. The apex of their domination came when they won back-to-back titles in 1921 and '22 over their AL counterpart Yankees. Then, the Yankees began winning and while the Giants won an additional title in 1933, it wasn't too long before the Yankees became not just the #1 team in New York but in all of baseball. By the 1950's the Giants were setting up to head out west to San Francisco, but not before they managed one more climb to the top while on the east coast. Leo Durocher managed his squad to a 97-57 record, holding off the cross town rivals in Brooklyn by 5 games to claim the NL pennant for the 17th time. Over in the AL, the Yankees had finally been bested when the Cleveland Indians won an AL record 111 games, but the Giants would keep the city's WS strea...