World Series MVP--1950--Jerry Coleman

Although the actual World Series Most Valuable Player Award would not be officially presented until 1955, the Babe Ruth Award, named in honor of the "Great Bambino" who had passed away in 1948, was the measure by which players were considered to be the World Series MVP from 1949 until 1955. (The award is still presented every year, however.)

The first five Babe Ruth Award winners would all be Yankees, much like the Babe, because the Yankees would win five consecutive World Series titles from 1949-53. (This feat is still unmatched.)

Jerry Coleman was the second player to win the award and is currently the last living player to receive the award before the World Series MVP Award was created. Coleman would play predominantly at second base for the Yankees and won four World Series titles (1949-51, 56) while also being one of only a handful of players to leave baseball to serve in two separate American wars (World War II and Korea).

Coleman is currently the oldest and longest tenured play-by-play announcer in baseball, working for the San Diego Padres, and he was given the honorary award of induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005, the Ford C. Frick Award.

He batted .286 (4-14) with 2 walks, 2 runs scored, and 2 RBI while playing brilliant defensive baseball. The Yankees swept the Philadelphia "Whiz Kids" 4-0. This is one of only two times that the teams have met in the World Series, with the Yankees also winning the other meeting in 2009, 4-2.