"Brooklyn's got a winning team" is part of stanza 7 of the song. The year was 1955, and the Dodgers faced the Yankees. How many times had the Yankees already beaten the Dodgers in the World Series prior to this year?

The 1955 series was the 6th meeting between the two teams, and the first one that the Dodgers won. It was also the only time the Dodgers won a series while based in Brooklyn, as they would relocate to L.A. just two years later. The Yankees faced the Dodgers again in the 1956 series, and that time the Yankees won.

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