<P> Finally, in 1955 the Dodgers reversed matters, prevailing over the Yankees in seven games to win their only World Series in Brooklyn . Thus came the slogan, This IS next year . </P> <P> Brooklyn fell short of repeating the next season, falling in seven games to the Yankees . That year's team suffered some ignominy in being on the losing end of Don Larsen's perfect game in Game 5, which was the first of only two no - hitters ever pitched in postseason play and the only in the history of the World Series . </P> <P> In both the 1955 and 1956 World Series, the home team won the first six games of the World Series, but lost Game 7 . It would not be until 1987 when the home team won all seven games of a World Series . However, the Yankees would meet the unfortunate fate of being the first American League team to lose a World Series in which the home team won all seven games, in 2001 . </P> <P> The 1956 World Series would be the last Subway Series of the 1900s and the last to include one of the National League's charter franchises . </P>

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