Yankees vs. Dodgers: What to know about the World Series’s biggest rivalry

The Yankees and Dodgers’s October showdowns have produced some of baseball’s most memorable moments.

In the beginning, the World Series matchup of the Dodgers against the Yankees was a kind of charming intra-city showdown of two New York City boroughs, blue collar Brooklyn, equipped with a neighborhood called Gravesend, against the pretentious Bronx, with the fancy Grand Concourse.