For the second year in a row, New York City teams won both major-league pennants.
The Yankees took their fourth straight, their19th since 1921. Weakened by Joe DiMaggio's retirement, the loss of Second Baseman Jerry Coleman to the U.S. Marine Corps and the aging of an already elderly pitching staff, the 1952 Yankees seemed at times only a shadow of prewar Yankee teams. They did lead the league in batting; but second-place Cleveland had a decided edge in power hitting, even more of an edge in pitching.
American League fans who used to ask "What's...
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