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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 two most prolific World Series winners to date, the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals, did not win their first championship until the 1920s; and three of the teams that were highly successful prior to 1920 (the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Cubs) went the rest of the 20th century without another World Series ...
A series-by-series look at each of the World Series the Dodgers franchise played in before winning it all again in 2024.
The World Series was first played in 1903, when the champions of the established National League (NL) and the upstart American League (AL) met for a playoff series. From that time through 1968, the two leagues (which each had eight teams through 1960) each sent only its team with the best regular-season record to the World Series.
The Dodgers' seven World Series titles rank sixth among MLB teams. Below is every team with more World Series titles: 1. New York Yankees (27) 2. St. Louis Cardinals (11) T-3.
The teams have played against each other 11 times in past title series since their first in 1941. The Yankees have clinched eight of those championships.
The list includes only the modern World Series between the American League (AL) and the National League (NL), not the various 19th-century championship series. The most successful postseason team in MLB history is the New York Yankees, who have achieved three of the four instances of a franchise winning more than two World Series championships ...
Will Smith's been a really good relief pitcher in the big leagues for 12 years. The left-handed reliever became the first player in MLB history to win three World Series in a row with three ...