1955 was the most glorious year in the history of the Brooklyn Dodgers as the "Bums" won their only World Championship as a Brooklyn ball club. Presented is a felt pennant from that seminal year, one that features an image of the Brooklyn Bum, but this time, the bum is finally wearing a crown, as the bum, in an amazing transformation, has now become King. Many of the Boys of Summer Dodgers believed that the 1953 team was the best-ever Brooklyn ensemble, but that immensely talented squad lost the World Series to the Yankees. Even though the '55 team had essentially the same key players as the '53 team, mainstays such as Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges, Duke Snider, and Pee Wee Reese were getting older; so was Roy Campanella, but he had a National League MVP season, and the '55 team became World Champions in spite of their aging stars. One player who was essential in putting the '55 team over the top was 23-year-old left-hander Johnny Podres, who shut out the fabled Yankees in Game 7 of the '55 Series, and as the Yankees' Elston Howard grounded to shortstop Pee Wee Reese, and Reese threw to first baseman Gil Hodges for the final out, all of Brooklyn began to celebrate. The offered pennant measures 11.6x30". It appears that the pennant was originally mostly blue, but that color has faded, and the original red color on the jewels on the king's crown has faded as well. The pennant reads, "Brooklyn Dodgers World Champions" and the white lettering and imaging, in various places, shows fading, cracking, and paint loss in spots. There is a small hole, about 0.25" in diameter, in the lower part of the pennant, and there is a small loss of felt along the bottom of the pennant, about 0.25" in size. One of the "ties" at the large end of the pennant is missing. There are three tiny holes, each in the middle of a darkened circle about 0.30" in diameter, where it seems that thumb tacks were used to hang the pennant. A tiny portion of the tip of the pennant is missing, and various small folds are evident. Despite the aforementioned imperfections of the 78-year-old pennant, the offering has a poignant charm to it. The depicted clown-like Brooklyn Bum seems to show a sadness, almost as if he knew that the Dodgers' owner, Walter O'Malley, was already scheming to move the Dodgers to Los Angeles - which O'Malley certainly was going to do unless he received valuable financial help from New York City in building the Dodgers a new stadium to replace Ebbets Field. The pennant is a great vintage remembrance of the only time in history that the fabled Brooklyn Dodgers were the Champions of the World.