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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]
1886 Chicago White Stockings season; 1887 Detroit Wolverines season; 1888 New York Giants season; 1889 New York Giants season; 1903 Boston Americans season; 1905 New York Giants season; 1906 Chicago White Sox season; 1907 Chicago Cubs season; 1908 Chicago Cubs season; 1909 Pittsburgh Pirates season; 1910 Philadelphia Athletics season; 1911 ...
[1] 68 of the 116 100-win teams have advanced to the World Series (.586), with 38 of them going on to win the Series (for a percentage of .559), while 23 teams that have won 100 games have lost in the first round of the postseason, with 22 being in the Division Series and one being in the Wild Card Series (introduced in 2022 full-time).
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 ...
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
Rangers LHP Will Smith becomes 1st player in MLB history to win 3 straight World Series rings with 3 different teams ... This season, the Rangers signed Smith to a one-year, $1.5 million contract ...
Cliff Lee captured the Cy Young Award in 2008 in addition to winning 22 games. Félix Hernández won 19 games in 2009, one of three pitchers to do so. CC Sabathia started Game 1 of the 2009 World Series after winning 19 games for the Yankees that season. Justin Verlander also led the American League in strikeouts and innings pitched in 2009.
The three-time National League Manager of the Year (1993, 1997, 2000) is the only manager in MLB history to lead five different teams to the postseason and to win division titles with five ...