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The New York Yankees have the highest all-time regular season win–loss percentage (.569) in Major League Baseball history. Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, which consists of a total of 30 teams—15 teams in the National League (NL) and 15 in the American League (AL). The NL and AL were formed in 1876 and ...
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]
View history; Tools. Tools. ... Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Major League Baseball team records" The following 31 pages are in this ...
List of Major League Baseball All-Star Game records; List of Major League Baseball attendance records; List of Major League Baseball postseason records. List of World Series career records; List of World Series single-game records; List of World Series single-series records
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]
Several Yankees hold AL and MLB records. Ruth has MLB single-season records for extra-base hits and total bases, and holds four other AL single-season records. Outfielder Joe DiMaggio had a 56-game hitting streak in the 1941 season, which remains an MLB record. Jack Chesbro holds three AL records that he set in 1904: games won, games started ...
Career batting records Statistic Player Record Dodgers career Ref Batting average: Willie Keeler.352 1893 1899–1902 [3] On-base percentage: Gary Sheffield.424 1998–2001 [4] Slugging percentage: Gary Sheffield.573 1998–2001 [4] On-base plus slugging: Gary Sheffield.998 1998–2001 [4] Hits: Zack Wheat: 2,804 1909–1926 [5] Total bases ...
List of Major League Baseball record breakers by season; List of Major League Baseball career records; List of Major League Baseball runs records; List of Major League Baseball runs batted in records; List of Major League Baseball annual runs batted in leaders; List of Major League Baseball single-game runs batted in leaders