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The 1920 World Series was the championship series for Major League Baseball's 1920 season.The series was a best-of-nine format played between the American League (AL) champion Cleveland Indians and the National League (NL) champion Brooklyn Robins, with the Indians defeating the Robins five games to two.
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]
The 1920 major league baseball season began on April 14, 1920. The regular season ended on October 3, with the Brooklyn Robins and Cleveland Indians as the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The postseason began with Game 1 of the 17th World Series on October 5 and ended with Game 7 on October 12 ...
[1] [2] [3] officially becoming the Guardians on November 19, 2021. [4] [5] The team made its first World Series appearance in 1920 and won the first of their two World Series titles. Since then, the Indians have had three periods of success.
The first modern World Series was played in 1903 and, after a hiatus in 1904, has taken place every season except 1994, [2] when a players' strike forced the cancellation of the postseason. [3] The current AL pennant holders are the New York Yankees , who beat the Cleveland Guardians for the pennant on October 19, 2024.
Bill Wambsganss was a 1920 World Series champion and, thanks to "Succession," a very notable baseball player on Sunday. (Getty Images) (Bettmann via Getty Images)
The 1920 Brooklyn Robins, also known as the Dodgers, won 16 of their final 18 games to pull away from a tight pennant race and earn a trip to their second World Series against the Cleveland Indians. They lost the series in seven games.The team featured four Hall of Famers : manager Wilbert Robinson , pitchers Burleigh Grimes and Rube Marquard ...
October 10 – At League Park, the Cleveland Indians beat the Brooklyn Robins 8–1 in Game 5 of the World Series to take a 3–2 lead in the Classic, in one of the most unusual games in Series history. This game recorded the only triple play ever made in postseason play, the first Series grand slam, and the first Series home run hit by a pitcher.