Records and Important Events
This was the first World Series to produce total receipts over $2,000,000 dollars: Gate Receipts = $1,781,348.92, Radio Rights = $175,000.00 and Television Rights = $65,000.
Yogi Berra pinch-hit for Sherm Lollar in the seventh inning of Game 3 and hit the first ever World Series pinch-hit home run off Ralph Branca.
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