Exclusive | Oldest living Yankee, 100-year-old Art Schallock, predicts World Series outcome and gushes about DiMaggio

The oldest living Yankee is having a ball watching his team in the World Series.Art Schallock — a southpaw pitcher who replaced Mickey Mantle on the roster when he was called up to the big leagues in 1951 — predicts the Bombers will beat the hated Dodgers in six.“They just have to get some hits,” the 100-year-old said.

“And good pitching.”After Friday’s Game 1 — which sadly ended with a Freddie Freeman walk-off grand slam, putting the Yanks behind 0-1 in the series heading into Saturday night’s game — his spirits were still high.“Ahhh, they’ll come back, it was just the first game, and it was a great game!” he said.Schallock, a dad of two, grandfather of five and great-grandfather of two, can’t wait for the pinstripers to win their 28th world title.It will surely take him back to 1951, ’52 and ’53 — when the oldest living Major Leaguer won his own World Series rings with the team.In fact, it will be deja vu for Schallock because in ’52 and ’53, the Yankees beat the Dodgers, who played in Brooklyn at the time and were led by the immortal Jackie Robinson.He still proudly wears the 1951 ring, and gifted the ’52 ring to his grandson Zachary.

But he can’t find the 1953 bling.“My wife hid it and forgot where she put it,” he said of his beloved, Donna, who died last year after 76 years of marriage.He’ll be watching the games in a senior home in Sonoma, Calif., where he lives.His granddaughter Samantha and her wife Kristen attended the watch party for Friday’s Game 1.Schallock recalled being called up from the minors in 1951.“They had to make room for me on the roster.

They had to get rid of somebody, so they sent Mantle down to Kansas City.But he came back a couple months later and made a hell of a name for himself,” he said.As a rookie he lived in the Concourse Plaza Hotel, two blocks from Yankee Stadium, and bunked with future Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra.“Yogi was my roommate when I first got up to the Yanke...