Brooklyn Dodgers manager Walter Alston, left, congratulates New York Yankees manager Casey Stengel after the Yankees beat the Dodgers in game seven to win the World Series, Oct. 10, 1956, in the Yankees' dressing room at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. A Subway Series once seemed a New York birthright. Between 1921 and 1956, an all-New York World Series happened 13 times. Since 1956 _ nothing. Now, however, the prospect of a Subway Series is tantalizingly close, just a single Yankees' victory away from reality. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)