In the never to be forgotten season of 1956, immortals would rise from the crowd. A 25 year old from Oklahoma would make headlines. A young but experienced pitcher would do the unspeakable in October. The Yankees were the home to many superstars that season. A switch hitting slugger named Mickey Mantle would lead the American League in home runs, RBIs, and batting average all in that same year for a Triple Crown. It was also good for the League MVP award, too. Meanwhile, downtown in Brooklyn, an iconic player who would not only change baseball but the nation would enter his final year in Major League Baseball. Jackie Robinson, the man who Rickey Branch signed to break the color barrier, would enter the final year of his legendary 10 season career. The year before, in 1955, Jackie Robinson and the rest of the Brooklyn Dodgers would beat out the Yankees in a great series. The 1956 World Series, as Mickey Mantle would say in one of his autobiographies, My Favorite Summer 1956, ‘’It would be a rematch of 1955.’’ But both teams didn’t get there just like that. They had to put up a fight.