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Originally Posted by skelly423
Eddie Robinson was the last surviving member of the 1948 Cleveland Indians championship team until his recent passing. I haven't looked it up, but I can't believe there are any surviving players from earlier Champions. Does anybody know the earliest World Series team to still have a surviving player?
Given their dominance at the time, I'm guessing it's just a question of the oldest living Yankee...
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Actually, some guys on the old Brooklyn Dodgers WS teams are still above ground. Tommy Brown was on the team's rosters in 1947 and 1949, Carl Erskine was also on the 1949 team, and Bobby Morgan was on the 1952 Dodgers. A more remarkable thing - given the relative positions of the teams in the period - is that a member of the 1950 Philadelphia Phillies is still with us - Curt Simmons.
Morgan, at 95, is the oldest of the four, and Simmons at 92 is the youngest.