Yankees win the World Series. In the 1939 World Series the Yankees played the Cincinnati Reds. Famous players from the Yankees such as Joe DiMaggio, Charlie Kelly and Lou Gehrig are remembered for there spectacular careers. The Reds were in the lead but Joe DiMaggio gets the winning hit to send his teammates to home plate. In Louisburg, North Carolina, lines are painted on the sidewalks to divide pedestrians from loiters. Once the labor is finished, "No loitering in center lane" is written on the sidewalk.