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For other events named "World Series", see World Series (disambiguation).
The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball and the culmination of the sport's postseason each October.
The World Series is played between the American League and National League champions. The Series winner is determined through a best-of-seven playoff (except in 1903, 1919, 1920 and 1921 when the winner was determined through a best-of-nine playoff) and is awarded the World Series Trophy, as well as World Series rings. Baseball has employed various championship formulas since the 1850s. The modern World Series has been an annual event since 1903, with the exceptions of 1904 and 1994.
The term "World Series" (short for "World's Championship Series") was first used in the 1880s, when baseball existed at a highly-skilled level only in the USA and international travel was rare. The traditional term "World Series" continues to be used for the Major League Baseball championship.
The New York Yankees have the most World Series titles, with 26 championships through the 2005 season. Eight teams, all established since 1961 (dates of establishment listed are for the current franchises) or thereafter, have never won a World Series title: the Texas Rangers (est. 1972), Houston Astros (est. 1965), San Diego Padres (est. 1969), Washington Nationals (formerly the Montreal Expos from 1969 to 2004), Milwaukee Brewers (est. 1969), Seattle Mariners (est. 1977), Colorado Rockies (est. 1993), and Tampa Bay Devil Rays (est. 1998). Of those eight teams, only three have appeared in the Series: Milwaukee, San Diego, and Houston. Of those, only San Diego has gone to the Series more than once. The San Francisco Giants have also not won a World Series title after their move from New York in 1957. The Chicago Cubs have gone the longest between titles, having last won the World Series in 1908. The Philadelphia Phillies played titleless for 97 seasons, finally winning in 1980. Barring a miraculous comeback, the Cubs' own dry spell will surpass that record in 2006.
Contents [hide]
1 Introduction
2 Champions Prior and Precursors to the World Series (1857-1901)
2.1 Pre American-Association
2.2 The Original World Series
2.3 1892-1900: "The Monopoly Years"
2.3.1 1892-1893
2.3.2 Temple Cup
2.3.3 1898-1900
2.4 National League - American League
3 The modern World Series (1903-present)
3.1 The first attempt
3.2 The boycott of 1904
3.3 List of modern World Series
4 World Series Appearances
5 Down to the wire
6 Deficits overcome
7 Trivia
7.1 In fiction
8 Image gallery
9 References
10 See also
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Introduction
The first two games of the series are played in the home ballpark of the team awarded home-field advantage; the next three are in the other team's ballpark, and the final two, if necessary, are back in the first team's ballpark. That has been the pattern since 1924, with the exception of World War II, when travel restrictions were in place. Until 2003, the team given the home-field advantage was switched every year between the American League and the National League. Starting with the 2003 World Series, the league that wins the mid-season All-Star Game has been awarded home-field advantage. The American League has home field advantage for the 2006 Series.
Since 1986, the designated hitter rule has been applied based on the rules normally in effect at the home ballpark. In an American League ballpark, both teams use a designated hitter to hit for the pitcher. In a National League ballpark, both team's pitchers must hit. From 1975 through 1985, the designated hitter was used for all games in even-numbered years, and was not used in any games in odd-numbered years. The designated hitter was not used at all prior to the 1975 Series, although the DH rule had been adopted by the AL in 1973.
A portion of the gate receipts from the World Series — and, from 1969 onward, the other rounds of postseason play preceding it — is used to fund a Players' Pool, from which descending shares are distributed to the World Series winner, the World Series loser, all the other teams qualifying for the playoffs which did not reach the World Series, and certain other teams which did not qualify for the playoffs, the criteria for the latter changing at various times. Prior to 1969, teams finishing in the first division, or top half of the leagues' standings, received such shares; today, only the teams finishing in second place in their division but not earning a wild card receive them, because there are more divisions with each having fewer teams. The shares for the actual participants are limited to the gate receipts of the minimum number of games necessary to play the series. That rule has been in place from the beginning, to keep the games "honest".
The "World" appellation has stuck despite the fact that only teams in the two major leagues, which happen to cover only the United States and Canada, actually participate. At the time the term was first used, baseball at the major league level was only played in the United States. While some would contend that there is no reason to believe that the World Series winner is a significantly better team than any club team outside Major League Baseball, no challenges have been made by other leagues. Moreover, virtually all of the best international players — from the Pacific Rim, Latin America, the Caribbean, and elsewhere — play on Major League rosters, with the notable exception of Cuban nationals.
The World Series winners have occasionally played winter exhibition series against the best players of other leagues around the world, such as Japan. Sometimes the Japanese have gained the upper hand in those series; but since they are only exhibitions, their results cannot be regarded as conclusive. Attempts to pit the North American champions against champions in the Japanese or Latin American leagues in a truly meaningful way have, so far, not succeeded.
A persistent myth is that the "World" in "World Series" came about because the New York World newspaper sponsored it. Baseball researcher Doug Pappas refutes that claim, demonstrating a linear progression from the phrase "World's Championship Series" (used to describe the 1903 series as well as some of the 19th-century postseason series) to "World's Series" (a term first used in the 1880s and which persisted for decades) to "World Series". Furthermore, investigation of the New York World for the relevant years revealed no evidence of the supposed sponsorship. (For details, see Mr. Pappas' web page on the subject.)
In deference to any controversy, more and more the term "World Series Championship" is being used, the subtlety being that it is merely a title and not a political statement.
Baseball tournaments between international teams do occur, notably at the world championships and at the Olympic Games. The United States sends a team of minor league players to the Summer Olympics, as it takes place during the regular Major League season. At the 2004 Summer Olympics the United States was not represented at all, since its team of minor league players did not survive the qualifying rounds. The International Baseball Federation (IBAF) has lobbied MLB to suspend play during the Summer Olympics, so that MLB players could compete for their respective national teams, and has agreed to shorten the Olympic tournament if MLB agrees to freeing its players. According to the IBAF chairman, such a move would do more for popularizing baseball around the world than any amount of money spent by the MLB for its current worldwide marketing.
Recently, Major League Baseball conducted the inaugural World Baseball Classic. In light of the International Olympic Committee recently voting baseball out of the Summer Games as a medal sport, the results of this competition hope to prove to the IOC that baseball is truly an international game. 16 countries competed in the classic, including baseball hotbeds Japan, United States, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Korea, along with China, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), the Netherlands, Canada, Australia, Italy, Mexico, South Africa and Panama. In the Final, Japan defeated Cuba, 10-6. The United States, favored by most to at least make the last stages of the tournament, were eliminated in the second round. The WBC is planned to be held again in 2009, and every four years after.
The term World Series has since been appropriated by other championships, such as the College World Series, the Little League World Series, the World Series of Golf, the World Series of Poker, the World Series of Birding and the World Series of Martial Arts. World Series Cricket was a short-lived but influential cricket competition.
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Champions Prior and Precursors to the World Series (1857-1901)
The following are teams that played an earlier version of the "World's Championship Series" or otherwise claimed the national championship "Pennant".
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Pre American-Association
Prior to the formation of the American Association, all championships went to whoever had the best record at the end of the season. National Association of Baseball Players (Amateur -> Professional)
1857 Brooklyn Atlantics
1858 New York Mutuals
1859 Brooklyn Atlantics
1860 Brooklyn Atlantics
1861 Brooklyn Atlantics
1862 Brooklyn Eckfords
1863 Brooklyn Eckfords
1864 Brooklyn Atlantics
1865 Brooklyn Atlantics
1866 Brooklyn Atlantics
1867 Morrisania Unions
1868 New York Mutuals
1869 Brooklyn Atlantics
1870 Chicago White Stockings
National Association of Professional Baseball Players
1871 Philadelphia Athletics
1872 Boston Red Stockings
1873 Boston Red Stockings
1874 Boston Red Stockings
1875 Boston Red Stockings
National League
1876 Chicago White Stockings
1877 Boston Red Caps
1878 Boston Red Caps
1879 Providence Grays
1880 Chicago White Stockings
1881 Chicago White Stockings
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The Original World Series
These games were later considered by Major League Baseball to be exhibition games in order to put the National League and American League on equal footing. National League vs. American Association
1882 Chicago White Stockings NL, Cincinnati Reds AA - 2 game Series, each club wins 1
1883 Boston Beaneaters NL, Philadelphia AA - Philadelphia cancels scheduled Series after losing "City Series" to Phillies.
1884 Providence Grays NL, Metropolitan [New York] AA - 3 game series, Providence wins all 3, 60-game winner Old Hoss Radbourn pitches every inning
1885 Chicago White Stockings NL, St. Louis Browns AA - 6 game Series, ends in dispute
1886 St. Louis Browns AA win 4, Chicago White Stockings NL win 2
1887 Detroit Wolverines NL win 10, St. Louis Browns AA win 5
1888 New York Giants NL win 6, St. Louis Browns AA win 2
1889 New York Giants NL win 6, Brooklyn Bridegrooms AA win 3
1890 Brooklyn Bridegrooms NL, Louisville Colonels AA - each win 3, no resolution
1891 Boston Beaneaters NL, Boston Reds AA - NL instructs Beaneaters not to play Series as leagues discuss restructuring
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1892-1900: "The Monopoly Years"
Between the collapse of the American Association and the birth of the American League, the National League, which at the time was the lone league, went through several formats to determine their champion, including the Temple Cup from 1894-1897, modeled after the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup
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1892-1893
1892 Boston Beaneaters win 5, Cleveland Spiders win 0 - split-season championship
1893 Boston Beaneaters - no Series
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Temple Cup
1894 New York Giants win 4, Baltimore Orioles win 0
1895 Cleveland Spiders win 4, Baltimore Orioles win 1
1896 Baltimore Orioles win 4, Cleveland Spiders win 0
1897 Baltimore Orioles win 4, Boston Beaneaters win 1
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1898-1900
1898 Boston Beaneaters - no Series
1899 Brooklyn Superbas - no Series
1900 Brooklyn Superbas win 4, Pittsburgh Pirates win 1 - Chronicle-Telegraph Cup Series
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National League - American League
1901 Pittsburgh Pirates NL, Chicago White Sox AL - no Series
1902 Pittsburgh Pirates NL, Philadelphia Athletics AL - no Series
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The modern World Series (1903-present)
Crowd outside the 1903 World Series
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The first attempt
1903 World Series Poster mockup (the team was not actually called the Red Sox until 1908)After two years of bitter competition and player raiding, the National and American Leagues made peace and, as part of the accord, several pairs of teams squared off for interleague exhibition games after the 1903 regular season. These series were arranged by the individual teams, not by the leagues directly, the same as the 1880s World's Series matches had been. One of these series at the end of 1903 was a meeting between the two pennant winners, Pittsburg Pirates of the NL and Boston Americans (later known as Red Sox) of the AL, and is known as the 1903 World Series. It had been arranged well in advance by the owners of the respective teams, as both were league leaders by large margins. In the first championship, Boston upset Pittsburg by 5 games to 3, winning with pitching depth behind Cy Young and Bill Dineen and with the support of the band of Royal Rooters. The Series brought much civic pride to Boston and proved the new American League can beat the Nationals on the field.
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The boycott of 1904
The 1904 Series would have been between the AL's Boston Americans and the NL's New York Giants. The Giants' owner, John T. Brush, refused to allow his team to play, citing the "inferiority" of the upstart American League. At the time of the announcement, their new cross-town rivals, the Highlanders, were leading the AL. Boston won on the last day of the season, but Brush stuck to his original decision. Brush also cited the lack of rules under which the games would be played and how the money would be split. During the winter of 1904/05, however, feeling the sting of press criticism, Brush saw the light and proposed what came to be known as the "Brush Rules", under which the series would be played over subsequent years.
One rule was that player shares would come from gate receipts from the first four games only. This was to discourage teams from throwing early games in order to prolong the series and make more money. Receipts for later games were split among the two teams and the National Commission, the governing body for the sport, which was able to cover much of its annual operating expenses from World Series revenue.
Most importantly, the now-official (and compulsory) World's Series match was to be operated strictly by the National Commission itself, not on the whims of individual teams.
The list of post-season rules evolved over time. In 1925, Brooklyn owner Charles Ebbets convinced owners to adopt the current 2-3-2 system of scheduling World Series games (one team would host the first two games, the other team would host the next three, and the first team would host the last two if necessary; the leagues alternated which representative would host the first games), already used in the 1924 Series, as a permanent rule. Prior to 1924, the pattern generally had been to alternate, or to make other arrangements convenient to both clubs.
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List of modern World Series
Year Winner League Games Loser League Games MVP
1903 Boston Americans AL 5 Pittsburgh Pirates NL 3
1904 Boycotted by New York Giants (NL) and Boston(AL) remained the champion by default
1905 New York Giants NL 4 Philadelphia Athletics AL 1
1906 Chicago White Sox AL 4 Chicago Cubs NL 2
1907 Chicago Cubs NL 4 Detroit Tigers AL 0
1908 Chicago Cubs NL 4 Detroit Tigers AL 1
1909 Pittsburgh Pirates NL 4 Detroit Tigers AL 3
1910 Philadelphia Athletics AL 4 Chicago Cubs NL 1
1911 Philadelphia Athletics AL 4 New York Giants NL 2
1912 Boston Red Sox AL 4 New York Giants NL 3
1913 Philadelphia Athletics AL 4 New York Giants NL 1
1914 Boston Braves NL 4 Philadelphia Athletics AL 0
1915 Boston Red Sox AL 4 Philadelphia Phillies NL 1
1916 Boston Red Sox AL 4 Brooklyn Robins/Dodgers NL 1
1917 Chicago White Sox AL 4 New York Giants NL 2
1918 Boston Red Sox AL 4 Chicago Cubs NL 2
1919 Cincinnati Reds NL 5 Chicago White Sox AL 3
1920 Cleveland Indians AL 5 Brooklyn Robins/Dodgers NL 2
1921 New York Giants NL 5 New York Yankees AL 3
1922 New York Giants NL 4 New York Yankees AL 0
1923 New York Yankees AL 4 New York Giants NL 2
1924 Washington Senators AL 4 New York Giants NL 3
1925 Pittsburgh Pirates NL 4 Washington Senators AL 3
1926 St. Louis Cardinals NL 4 New York Yankees AL 3
1927 New York Yankees AL 4 Pittsburgh Pirates NL 0
1928 New York Yankees AL 4 St. Louis Cardinals NL 0
1929 Philadelphia Athletics AL 4 Chicago Cubs NL 1
1930 Philadelphia Athletics AL 4 St. Louis Cardinals NL 2
1931 St. Louis Cardinals NL 4 Philadelphia Athletics AL 3
1932 New York Yankees AL 4 Chicago Cubs NL 0
1933 New York Giants NL 4 Washington Senators AL 1
1934 St. Louis Cardinals NL 4 Detroit Tigers AL 3
1935 Detroit Tigers AL 4 Chicago Cubs NL 2
1936 New York Yankees AL 4 New York Giants NL 2
1937 New York Yankees AL 4 New York Giants NL 1
1938 New York Yankees AL 4 Chicago Cubs NL 0
1939 New York Yankees AL 4 Cincinnati Reds NL 0
1940 Cincinnati Reds NL 4 Detroit Tigers AL 3
1941 New York Yankees AL 4 Brooklyn Dodgers NL 1
1942 St. Louis Cardinals NL 4 New York Yankees AL 1
1943 New York Yankees AL 4 St. Louis Cardinals NL 1
1944 St. Louis Cardinals NL 4 St. Louis Browns AL 2
1945 Detroit Tigers AL 4 Chicago Cubs NL 3
1946 St. Louis Cardinals NL 4 Boston Red Sox AL 3
1947 New York Yankees AL 4 Brooklyn Dodgers NL 3
1948 Cleveland Indians AL 4 Boston Braves NL 2
1949 New York Yankees AL 4 Brooklyn Dodgers NL 1
1950 New York Yankees AL 4 Philadelphia Phillies NL 0
1951 New York Yankees AL 4 New York Giants NL 2
1952 New York Yankees AL 4 Brooklyn Dodgers NL 3
1953 New York Yankees AL 4 Brooklyn Dodgers NL 2
1954 New York Giants NL 4 Cleveland Indians AL 0
1955 Brooklyn Dodgers NL 4 New York Yankees AL 3 Johnny Podres
1956 New York Yankees AL 4 Brooklyn Dodgers NL 3 Don Larsen
1957 Milwaukee Braves NL 4 New York Yankees AL 3 Lew Burdette
1958 New York Yankees AL 4 Milwaukee Braves NL 3 Bob Turley
1959 Los Angeles Dodgers NL 4 Chicago White Sox AL 2 Larry Sherry
1960 Pittsburgh Pirates NL 4 New York Yankees AL 3 Bobby Richardson (New York)
1961 New York Yankees AL 4 Cincinnati Reds NL 1 Whitey Ford
1962 New York Yankees AL 4 San Francisco Giants NL 3 Ralph Terry
1963 Los Angeles Dodgers NL 4 New York Yankees AL 0 Sandy Koufax
1964 St. Louis Cardinals NL 4 New York Yankees AL 3 Bob Gibson
1965 Los Angeles Dodgers NL 4 Minnesota Twins AL 3 Sandy Koufax
1966 Baltimore Orioles AL 4 Los Angeles Dodgers NL 0 Frank Robinson
1967 St. Louis Cardinals NL 4 Boston Red Sox AL 3 Bob Gibson
1968 Detroit Tigers AL 4 St. Louis Cardinals NL 3 Mickey Lolich
1969 New York Mets NL 4 Baltimore Orioles AL 1 Donn Clendenon
1970 Baltimore Orioles AL 4 Cincinnati Reds NL 1 Brooks Robinson
1971 Pittsburgh Pirates NL 4 Baltimore Orioles AL 3 Roberto Clemente
1972 Oakland Athletics AL 4 Cincinnati Reds NL 3 Gene Tenace
1973 Oakland Athletics AL 4 New York Mets NL 3 Reggie Jackson
1974 Oakland Athletics AL 4 Los Angeles Dodgers NL 1 Rollie Fingers
1975 Cincinnati Reds NL 4 Boston Red Sox AL 3 Pete Rose
1976 Cincinnati Reds NL 4 New York Yankees AL 0 Johnny Bench
1977 New York Yankees AL 4 Los Angeles Dodgers NL 2 Reggie Jackson
1978 New York Yankees AL 4 Los Angeles Dodgers NL 2 Bucky Dent
1979 Pittsburgh Pirates NL 4 Baltimore Orioles AL 3 Willie Stargell
1980 Philadelphia Phillies NL 4 Kansas City Royals AL 2 Mike Schmidt
1981 Los Angeles Dodgers NL 4 New York Yankees AL 2 Ron Cey, Pedro Guerrero and Steve Yeager
1982 St. Louis Cardinals NL 4 Milwaukee Brewers AL 3 Darrell Porter
1983 Baltimore Orioles AL 4 Philadelphia Phillies NL 1 Rick Dempsey
1984 Detroit Tigers AL 4 San Diego Padres NL 1 Alan Trammell
1985 Kansas City Royals AL 4 St. Louis Cardinals NL 3 Bret Saberhagen
1986 New York Mets NL 4 Boston Red Sox AL 3 Ray Knight
1987 Minnesota Twins AL 4 St. Louis Cardinals NL 3 Frank Viola
1988 Los Angeles Dodgers NL 4 Oakland Athletics AL 1 Orel Hershiser
1989 Oakland Athletics AL 4 San Francisco Giants NL 0 Dave Stewart
1990 Cincinnati Reds NL 4 Oakland Athletics AL 0 José Rijo
1991 Minnesota Twins AL 4 Atlanta Braves NL 3 Jack Morris
1992 Toronto Blue Jays AL 4 Atlanta Braves NL 2 Pat Borders
1993 Toronto Blue Jays AL 4 Philadelphia Phillies NL 2 Paul Molitor
1994 Cancelled due to strike.
1995 Atlanta Braves NL 4 Cleveland Indians AL 2 Tom Glavine
1996 New York Yankees AL 4 Atlanta Braves NL 2 John Wetteland
1997 Florida Marlins ◊ NL 4 Cleveland Indians AL 3 Liván Hernández
1998 New York Yankees AL 4 San Diego Padres NL 0 Scott Brosius
1999 New York Yankees AL 4 Atlanta Braves NL 0 Mariano Rivera
2000 New York Yankees AL 4 New York Mets ◊ NL 1 Derek Jeter
2001 Arizona Diamondbacks NL 4 New York Yankees AL 3 Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling
2002 Anaheim Angels ◊ AL 4 San Francisco Giants ◊ NL 3 Troy Glaus
2003 Florida Marlins ◊ NL 4 New York Yankees AL 2 Josh Beckett
2004 Boston Red Sox ◊ AL 4 St. Louis Cardinals NL 0 Manny Ramírez
2005 Chicago White Sox AL 4 Houston Astros ◊ NL 0 Jermaine Dye
◊ Denotes wild-card team (since 1995).
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World Series Appearances
Num Team W L PCT Notes
39 New York Yankees 26 13 .666
18 Los Angeles Dodgers 6 12 .333 1-8 as Brooklyn Dodgers
17 San Francisco Giants 5 12 .294 5-9 as New York Giants
16 St. Louis Cardinals 9 7 .562
14 Oakland Athletics 9 5 .642 5-3 as Philadelphia Athletics
10 Boston Red Sox 6 4 .600 1-0 as Boston Americans
10 Chicago Cubs 2 8 .200
9 Cincinnati Reds 5 4 .555
9 Detroit Tigers 4 5 .444
9 Atlanta Braves 3 6 .333 1-1 as Boston Braves; 1-1 as Milwaukee Braves
7 Pittsburgh Pirates 5 2 .714
7 Baltimore Orioles 3 4 .428 0-1 as St. Louis Browns
6 Minnesota Twins 3 3 .500 1-2 as Washington Senators
5 Chicago White Sox 3 2 .600
5 Cleveland Indians 2 3 .400
5 Philadelphia Phillies 1 4 .200
4 New York Mets 2 2 .500
2 Florida Marlins 2 0 1.000
2 Toronto Blue Jays 2 0 1.000
2 Kansas City Royals 1 1 .500
2 San Diego Padres 0 2 .000
1 Arizona Diamondbacks 1 0 1.000
1 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 1 0 1.000 1-0 as Anaheim Angels
1 Houston Astros 0 1 .000
1 Milwaukee Brewers 0 1 .000
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Down to the wire
Teams that won by scoring in the last inning of a tied series:
1912 Red Sox
1924 Senators
1960 Pirates
1975 Reds
1991 Twins
1997 Marlins
2001 Diamondbacks
Teams that came close to losing but recovered to win:
1912 Red Sox - two outs away from elimination. (Down 1 in the 10th of Game 8)
1924 Senators - four outs. (Down 2 in the 8th of Game 7)
1925 Pirates - four outs. ( Down 2 in the 7th of Game 7)
1960 Pirates - four outs. (Down 3 in the 8th of Game 7)
1985 Royals - two outs. (Down 1 in the 9th of Game 6)
1986 Mets - one strike. (Down 2 in the 10th of Game 6)
1997 Marlins - two outs. (Down 1 in the 9th of Game 7)
2001 Diamondbacks - two outs. (Down 1 in the 9th of Game 7)
2002 Angels - six outs. (Down 5 in the 7th of Game 6)
The only team to win after being one out away from elimination, the 1986 Mets, were actually twice down to their final strike in Game 6. In addition, they were five outs away from losing before scoring the tying run in the 8th inning.
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Deficits overcome
50 teams have lost the first two games of a World Series (excluding ties). 11 have come back to win:
1921 Giants
1955 Dodgers
1956 Yankees
1958 Yankees
1965 Dodgers
1971 Pirates
1978 Yankees
1981 Dodgers
1985 Royals
1986 Mets
1996 Yankees
41 teams have fallen into a three-games-to-one deficit. Six have come back to win:
1903 Red Sox/Americans
1925 Pirates
1958 Yankees
1968 Tigers
1979 Pirates
1985 Royals
22 teams have lost the first three games of a World Series (excluding ties). All of them were swept except three which lost in five games:
1910 Cubs
1937 Giants
1970 Reds
Only the 1958 Yankees and the 1985 Royals have been behind two-games-to-none and three-games-to-one in the same World Series and come back to win. The 1985 Royals also overcame a three-games-to-one deficit in the American League Championship Series to defeat Toronto.
Only the 1985 Royals, the 1986 Mets, and the 1996 Yankees came back to win after losing the first two games at home.
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Trivia
The New York Yankees have won two or more championships in seven different decades - 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1990s.
The 2004 Boston Red Sox are the only team to have appeared in the World Series after falling behind 3 games to none (to the New York Yankees) in their league championship series.
The New York Giants' four consecutive World Series appearances from 1921 to 1924 are the most for any non-Yankees franchise.
The Oakland Athletics' three consecutive World Series victories from 1972 to 1974 are the most for any non-Yankees franchise.
The New York Yankees and the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers have played each other in the World Series a record 11 times (1941, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1963, 1977, 1978, and 1981).
Teams from New York (Yankees, New York Giants, Mets, and Brooklyn Dodgers) have accounted for 65 World Series appearances, or 32%, including 13 all-New York Series. They have won 34 Series, or about 1/3. If you include the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants, they account for 76 appearances (38%) and 39 wins (38.6%).
The Braves have appeared in the World Series representing the most cities: two in Boston (1914, 1948), two in Milwaukee (1957, 1958) and five in Atlanta (1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1999). They've won one for each of the three cities.
The St. Louis Cardinals lead the National League with nine World Series titles: 1926, 1931, 1934, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1964, 1967, and 1982.
The American League has won 60 World Series, or 59.4%.
The 1907-1908 Cubs, 1921-1922 Giants and 1975-1976 Reds are the only National League teams to win two straight World Series.
The Toronto Blue Jays and the Florida Marlins are tied for the most World Series titles without a loss: 2.
The San Diego Padres currently hold the record for most World Series appearances without a title: 2. (The San Francisco Giants are 0-3, but have won as New York).
The 1969 New York Mets were the first expansion team to appear in a World Series. They were also the first to win it.
From 1949 to 1956, every Series game was won by a team from New York City.
From 1949 to 1966, every Series involved the Yankees, Dodgers and/or Giants.
From 1978 to 1987, no franchise won the World Series twice, the longest such streak.
At 85-77 (.525), the 1987 Minnesota Twins had the lowest regular season winning percentage of any World Series champion.
At 82-79 (.509), the 1973 New York Mets had the lowest regular season winning percentage of any World Series team.
The 1906 World Series featured two franchises that had never appeared in the World Series. Amazingly, that has not happened since.
The 1908 World Series holds the record for poorest attendance including the record-low 6,210 in the finale.
The 1949 World Series featured the first Series game finished after dark, under artificial lights.
The 1970 World Series featured the first Series game played on artificial turf.
The 1971 World Series featured the first Series game scheduled at night.
The 1976 World Series was the first Series to use the designated hitter rule.
The 1985 World Series was the first Series played entirely at night.
The 1987 World Series featured the first Series game played indoors (at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome).
The 1991 World Series was the first Series to feature a team who had finished in last place in its division the previous year. Oddly, this distinction applied to both Series participants that year, the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves.
The 1987, 1991, and 2001 World Series were the only Series in which the home team won every game. The Minnesota Twins (1987, 1991) and Arizona Diamondbacks (2001) won those Series.
Minnesota's Jack Morris pitched a 10 inning complete game shutout in Game 7 to win the 1991 World Series.
Babe Ruth twice hit three home runs in one Series game (1926 and 1928). Reggie Jackson is the only other player to accomplish the feat (1977).
Bobby Richardson is the only player from a losing team to win a Series MVP award (1960).
Darold Knowles is the only pitcher to appear in every game of a seven-game World Series (1973).
The 2001 World Series is the only series to have games played in November.
Game 3 of the 2005 World Series holds the record for longest World Series game played in elapsed time at 5 hours and 41 minutes, and number of innings with 14 complete innings (technically tied with Game 2 of the 1916 World Series which went into the 14th, but ended with 1 out in the bottom of the 14th completing only 132⁄3 innings).
Yogi Berra holds the record for World Series Championships by a single a player, with 10.
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In fiction
In the Movie Back to the Future Part II a future Major League Baseball team, the Miami Gators lost the 2015 World Series to the Chicago Cubs in a four-game sweep which was considered to be a big upset.
In the science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine a future Major League Baseball team, the London Kings, won the 2042 World Series, which the show claims was the last World Series before baseball disbanded.
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Image gallery
Washington's Bucky Harris scores his home run in the fourth inning of Game 7, October 10, 1924
The Catch : Willie Mays makes a brilliant running catch of Vic Wertz's drive, September 29, 1954
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References
World Series.com - official website
Sporting News: History of the World Series
Baseball Almanac: World Series
2006 World Series Logo
Coolest World Series teams ever
Jerry Lansch, Glory Fades Away: The Nineteenth Century World Series Rediscovered (1991). ISBN 0878337261
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See also
Caribbean World Series
College World Series
***** League World Series
Japan Series
Asia Series
List of sporting events
List of Major League Baseball franchise post-season droughts
List of World Series won
World Cup of Baseball
World Baseball Classic
MLB Post-Season Representatives
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