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Larry Sherry: former World Series MVP recalls his career in the majors: Dodgers reliever won two games and saved two in Los Angeles' six-game Fall Classic victory over the White Sox in 1959.
THE HOMETOWN HERO OF THE first World Series winner from the West Coast was an unlikely one, not because of what he accomplished but the lengths he had to travel to get there.
In 1959, only a year after the former Brooklyn Dodgers landed in Los Angeles with a resounding thud, finishing seventh in the National League, they captured the World Series behind an unprecedented series of relief appearances against the American League champion Chicago White Sox by Los Angeles native son Larry Sherry.
The 6-2, 204-pound right-hander saved the first two Dodger victories and received credit for the wins in the other two as Los Angeles prevailed in the six-game ...
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