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The following are Michigan's professional sports league champions, NCAA Division I basketball, football and hockey champions, and NCAA Division II football champions: 1887 The Detroit Wolverines win the National League baseball pennant and defeat the American Association's St. Louis Browns in the World Series with a score of 17-3.
New York City has won the most professional sports championships of any American city. This is a list of cities in the United States that field or have fielded teams in North American men's professional sports leagues, showing the number of league championships each city has won. The championships won are recorded for the cities only, not the ...
Detroit was given the name "City of Champions" in the 1930s, for a series of successes both in individual and in team sport. The Detroit Lions won the National Football League championship in 1935. The Detroit Tigers won the American League pennant in 1934 and again in 1935, subsequently winning the World Series in 1935.
Detroit finished the season two games ahead of Toronto, securing the best record in the majors (98–64). [249] [251] In what would prove to be their last postseason appearance until 2006, the Tigers were upset in the 1987 American League Championship Series by the 85–77 Minnesota Twins (who in turn won the World Series that year) 4–1.
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The order of league championship won by the franchise Finish Final position in league, division, or conference T-# Finished tied in that position with one or more teams Pct The team's winning percentage for the season † NFL champions (1920–1969) ‡ Super Bowl champions (1970–present) * Conference champions ^ Division champions § Wild ...
There have been plenty of significant No. 24s in Detroit sports history, ... He also led the NFL with 10 interceptions in 1957, aka the Lions’ last championship season. On special teams, the ...
Detroit Historical Museum celebrates City of Champions Day with free admissions, podcasts and sports artifacts.