1951 World Series the last baseball game ever played by Joe DiMaggio. 1951 World Series (4–2): New York Yankees (A.L.) over New York Giants (N.L.) 1951 World Series The 1951 World Series matched the two-time defending champion New York Yankees against the New York Giants, who had won the National League pennant in a thrilling three-game playoff with the Brooklyn Dodgers on the legendary home run by Bobby Thomson (the Shot Heard 'Round the World). In the Series, the Yankees showed some power of their own, including Gil McDougald's grand slam home run in Game 5, at the Polo Grounds. The Yankees won
World Series Baseball 2K1 time. Unfortunately, a lack of features, shoddy audio presentation, and major gameplay flaws meant that "WSB2K1" was not well received by critics despite its fantastic graphics. The game is notorious for its sometimes-unresponsive controls, as well as the fact that manual fielding—a staple of baseball games for a half-decade prior to "WSB2K1"'s release—isn't even an option available to players. After the debacle that was "World Series Baseball 2K1", Sega decided to bring Visual Concepts (the developer behind the Dreamcast's far more successful "NBA 2K" and "NFL 2K" series) in for the next version of the game. The result was "World