THE WAY IT WAS
This game in the lastSubway Series:
Game 1: Oct. 3, 1956
Dodgers 6, Yankees 3
Brooklyn hurler Sal “The Barber” Maglie outlasted Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford to lead the Dodgers to victory at Ebbets Field.
The Yanks got off to a great start with Mickey Mantle’s two-run homer in the top of the first, but the Dodgers took the lead for good with Gil Hodges’s three-run blast in the third.
Headlines:
* The Senate announces it will hold hearings to investigate racketeering influence on Teamster locals.
* A Virginia woman convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting of her husband files suit in federal court claiming she has the right to widow’s benefits.
* Dodgers president Walter O’Malley spent the entire game chatting with President Eisenhower. The night before, O’Malley was at the Hotel Bossert when he slipped and wrenched his back.

