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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 fourth line marks the legal merger of the American and National Leagues into a single Major League Baseball in 2000. World Series championships are shown with a "•", National League Pennants before the World Series are shown with a "^", and American League Pennants before the World Series are shown with a "#".
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]
This caused Major League Baseball to hold the Divisional Series so that the first- and second-half champions could play each other to determine playoff spots for the NLCS and World Series. [10] As such, the Expos finished one-half game ahead of the second-place St. Louis Cardinals in the second half of the 1981 season.
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]
During and after World War I, the Athletics had nine consecutive losing seasons including the lowest win percentage in post-1900 major league baseball of .235 in 1916 and only 36 wins in 1919. Between 1934 and 1967 in Philadelphia and later Kansas City the team had sequences of thirteen and fifteen consecutive losing seasons and overall won ...
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.
Each year is linked to an article about that particular MLB season. Team season: Each year is linked to an article about that particular Brewers season. Finish: The team's final position in the divisional standings GB: Games behind the team that finished in first place in the division that season Apps. Postseason appearances: number of seasons ...