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Year American League champion National League champion World Series champion 1990: Oakland Athletics: Cincinnati Reds: Cincinnati Reds 1991: Minnesota Twins: Atlanta Braves: Minnesota Twins 1992: Toronto Blue Jays: Toronto Blue Jays 1993: Philadelphia Phillies: Toronto Blue Jays 1994: 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike: 1995
The first line is the formation of the National League (NL) in 1876, and the second is the transformation of the American League (AL) to a major league in 1901. The third line is the beginning of the expansion era in 1961.
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason. First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
The 1958 Major League Baseball season began to turn Major League Baseball into a nationwide league. Walter O'Malley, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers and "perhaps the most influential owner of baseball's early expansion era," [69] moved his team to Los Angeles, marking the first major league franchise on the West Coast. [70]
Season Level League Division Finish Wins Losses Win% GB Postseason Awards; Philadelphia Athletics: 1901: MLB: AL — 4th 74 62 .544 9 1902: MLB AL * — 1st 83 53 .610 — 1903: MLB AL — 2nd 75 60 .556 14½ 1904: MLB AL — 5th 81 70 .536 12½ 1905: MLB AL * — 1st 92 56 .622 — Lost World Series 4–1 * 1906: MLB AL — 4th 78 67 .538 12 ...
The 1899 Cleveland Spiders own the worst single-season record of all time (minimum 120 games) and for all eras, finishing at 20–134 (.130 percentage) in the final year of the National League's 12-team era in the 1890s; for comparison, this projects to 21–141 under the current 162-game schedule, and Pythagorean expectation based on the Spiders' results and the current 162-game schedule ...
In Major League Baseball (MLB), a player in each league wins the home run title each season by hitting the most home runs that year. [2] Only home runs hit in a particular league count towards that league's seasonal lead. Mark McGwire, for example, hit 58 home runs in 1997, more than any other player that year.
Baker's cycle was followed the next season by Tris Speaker 's, playing for the Boston Red Sox. Honus Wagner 's cycle was the last of the 1912 season. Goose Goslin hit for the cycle on August 28, 1924, for the Washington Senators. In 1929, Mel Ott hit one of that season's three cycles. Joe Cronin's cycles came 11 seasons apart: in 1929 and in 1940.