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When MLB split into divisions for the 1969 season, the American League, unlike the National League, split its 12 teams strictly on geography.The six teams located in the Eastern Time Zone were all placed in the AL East, and the remaining six were placed in the AL West.
The first-year Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1976 played as a member of the AFC West [5] before being aligned into the NFC Central in 1977. Each of the four AFC West teams won a division title in the first four years of the realignment – Oakland in 2002, Kansas City in 2003, San Diego in 2004 and Denver in 2005. It is the only one of the eight NFL ...
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 teams were then matched against each other in a special division series. Oakland and New York won the 1981 American League Division Series while Los Angeles and Montreal won the 1981 National League Division Series .
This category lists the seasons of baseball teams that finished in first place in the American League Western Division. Pages in category "American League West champion seasons" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.
The team, announced by Classic Sports Network in conjunction with the events celebrated around the 1997 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, were chosen by a panel of 36 members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America in a first- and second-place Borda count voting system.
All of the 1899 Western League teams were a part of the transformation with the Saint Paul Apostles moving to Chicago to play as the White Stockings. In 1901 the AL declared itself a major league. For its inaugural major league season the AL dropped its teams in Indianapolis, Buffalo and Minneapolis and replaced them with franchises in Boston ...
American League President and founder Ban Johnson, in center, surrounded by the portraits of the league's eight teams in 1907.. Originally a minor league known as the Western League, which existed from 1885 to 1899 with teams in mostly Great Lakes states, the league changed its name to the American League for the 1900 season and the next year developed into a second major league as a ...