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Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty
I don't need to look them up, nor did I need to look them up last night during the game when the subject came up. And I won't spoil it for everybody by rattling them all off. But a couple beside the obvious guys: Phil Rizzuto hung on to play for the '56 Yanks, as did Enos Slaughter.
It's cool that with all those Hall of Famers playing that both managers were also Hall of Famers. AND, Hall of Fame manager Dick Williams played on the Dodgers that year.
Among the other non-HOF managerial talent on those two clubs: Billy Martin, Don Zimmer, Hank Bauer, Roger Craig and of course, Gil Hodges (who should be in the Hall). They all won pennants except Zimmer, who won the East with the Cubs one year. Yogi was also a pennant winning manager.
That was some amazingly interesting sidebar stuff to outshine and Larsen did it.
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And 16 year old Joe Torre was in the left field stands....another HOF'r some day
and lets not forget two HOF announcers - Mel Allen and Vin Scully...ooops - THREE - the radio broadcast was done by Bob Wolff..