The 1956 World Series has always been remembered for the Don Larsen perfect game in Game 5, perhaps because the Game 7 rubber match vs. the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field finished with an anticlimactic 9-0 final score.
But if that game was one-sided, there was an all-time great to thank for it: Yogi Berra.
Berra -- playing on a team with future Hall of Famers in Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford and Phil Rizzuto -- became the first player in Major League history to hit two home runs in an elimination game. Berra went deep in the first inning and in the third inning to boost the Yankees to their first title since 1953.