Yankees World Series ring, given to team executive George Weiss, 1949

From the collection of Ron and Mitchell Leff

In 1949:

• The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, four years after the United States bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel is completed.
• Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman opens at the Morosco Theatre in New York.
• Jackie Robinson testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee in response to pro-Soviet statements made by Paul Robeson.

The Glory Days: New York Baseball, 1947-1957 was on view at the Museum of the City of New York from June 27 to December 31, 2007.