The crowd of 32589 had only two chances to applaud.

In the third Frank Robinson hammered a long home run deep into the corner of the bleachers in right center, about 400 feet away, with two men on. Momentarily the Reds were back in the ball game, trailing only 6 -- 3, but the drive fizzled when John Edwards fouled out with men on second and third and two out.

In the fifth, Wally Post slashed a 2 -- run homer off Bud Daley, but by that time the score was 11 -- 5 and it really didn't matter.

The Yankee triumph made Ralph Houk only the third man to lead a team to both a pennant and a World Series victory in his first year as a manager. Only Bucky Harris, the ``boy manager'' of Washington in 1924, and Eddie Dyer of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1946 had accomplished the feat.