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The 1996 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1996 season. The 92nd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion (and defending World Series champion ) Atlanta Braves and the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees .
February 19 – Charles O. Finley, 77, controversial and colorful owner of the Athletics between December 1960 and August 1980; moved franchise from Kansas City to Oakland after the 1967 season; functioning as his own general manager after 1966, he led the Athletics to three straight World Series titles from 1972 to 1974; brought innovations to ...
The 1996 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1996 season.The winners of the League Division Series would move on to the League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series.
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The most recent World Series champions are the Los Angeles Dodgers. The last team to repeat as champions were the Yankees in 2000 . Two World Series matchups (in 1982 and 2005 ) have no possibility of a rematch due to one of the contending teams switching to the opposing league – the Milwaukee Brewers moved to the NL in 1998, and the Houston ...
The 1996 Major League Baseball season was the final season of league-only play before the beginning of interleague play the following season.The season ended with the New York Yankees defeating the defending champion Atlanta Braves in six games for the World Series title, the Yankees' first championship since 1978.
Game 7 in 2016 between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians had an average viewership of 40.045 million—the most-watched World Series game in 25 years dating back to 1991 [13] —and peaked at 49.9 million viewers, and Fox estimated more than 75 million people watched all or part of the game.
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