1943 World Series 1943 World Series The 1943 World Series matched the defending champion St. Louis Cardinals against the New York Yankees, in a rematch of the 1942 Series. The Yankees won the Series in five games for their tenth championship in 21 seasons. It was Yankees manager Joe McCarthy's final Series win. This series was also the first to have an accompanying World Series highlight film (initially, the films were created as gifts to troops fighting in World War II, to give them a brief recap of baseball action back home), a tradition that still persists. This World Series was scheduled for
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