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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]
1937 World Series at WorldSeries.com via MLB.com; 1937 World Series at Baseball Almanac; 1937 World Series at Baseball-Reference.com; The 1937 Post-Season Games (box scores and play-by-play) at Retrosheet; History of the World Series - 1937 at The Sporting News. Archived from the original in May 2006.
This was the second postseason meeting between the Orioles and Athletics. They previously met in the 1971 ALCS, which the Orioles won in a sweep.The Athletics defeated the Orioles in 5 games to advance to the World Series for the second year in a row (in the process denying a rematch of the 1969 World Series between the Mets and Orioles).
The postseason began on October 3, 2000, and ended on October 26, 2000, with the Yankees defeating the Mets in five games in the 2000 World Series, also known as the "Subway Series" as both teams were from New York City. The Yankees completed a three-peat and won their 26th title in franchise history.
"Big Klu" did so in just six games, and his 10 RBIs in the 1959 World Series remain a record for a 6-game World Series, as Berra's 10 RBIs in 1956 came in a 7-game World Series. (However, Bobby Richardson would break the record for RBIs in a World Series, regardless of length, the next year with 12 against the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1960 ...
The 1941 World Series, the last before the entry of the United States into the Second World War, matched the New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers, with the Yankees winning in five games to capture their fifth title in six years, and their ninth overall. The name "Subway Series" arose for a World Series played between two New York City ...
On Fox alone, the World Series in total averaged 15.20 million viewers, up 67% from last year (9.11 million) and the best five-game average since 2017 (16.42 million).
This World Series featured two teams with lengthy championship droughts. The Red Sox last won the World Series in 1918, while the Reds won their last title in 1940. In what many consider to be one of the greatest World Series ever played, the Reds defeated the Red Sox in seven games in a back-and-forth series.