1978 World Series - Aftermath

Aftermath

This Series is tied with the 1980 World Series for the highest overall television ratings to date, with the six games averaging a Nielsen rating of 32.8 and a share of 56.

The Yankees became the last repeat World Champions until fifteen years later (1992–1993; Toronto Blue Jays). This would be the last time the Yankees would win a World Series until 1996. However, it may have ended in 1994, if there had not been a strike that year, because they had the best record in the American League. The Dodgers would go on to win the World Series in 1981, against the Yankees, and 1988, against the Oakland Athletics.

The Yankees won the last four games of the series after losing the first two. The Dodgers would do that against them three years later.

This would be the last World Series championship for the city of New York until the Yankees' cross-town rivals, the Mets, won in 1986.