The
New York Yankees and the
Los Angeles Dodgers will face each other in the 1969 World Series Championship. For the Yankees, the last time they made to post season was in 1964 and their last World Series win was in 1962. What makes it interesting is the Yankees won 101 games and won over 100 games in both 1961 (109) and 1963 (104) yet the won it all during 1962 when they won 96 games in between.
The Dodgers last reached the post season in 1966 and won a World Series in 1965. Current Dodgers on that 1965 team are SP
Claude Osteen, SP
Bill Singer, RP
John Purdin, CL
Jim Brewer, C
Jeff Torborg, 1B
Wes Parker, 3B
Jim Lefebvre, SS
Maury Wills, LF
Willie Crawford and CF
Willie Davis.
The projected starters for the 1st 2 games in Los Angeles are
NYY
Mel Stottlemyre vs LAN
Don Sutton
NYY
Stan Bahnsen vs LAN
Claude Osteen