This is the 61st MLB season since I was born. One of those seasons (1994) did not end with a World Series, so I have lived through 59 World Series. If you give each team five points for every year it won a World Series in that time, and you give each team one point for every year it lost a World Series in that time, then the all-time standings in my lifetime look like this:
1. N.Y. Yankees: 40
2. Los Angeles: 31
3. St. Louis: 25
4. Boston: 23
5. Oakland: 22
6. Baltimore: 18
T7. Cincinnati: 17
T7. San Francisco: 17
T9. Atlanta: 14
T9. Philadelphia: 14
T11. Houston: 13
T11. N.Y. Mets: 13
T13. Detroit: 12
T13. Kansas City: 12
15. Toronto: 11
T16. Miami: 10
T16. Minnesota: 10
T16. Pittsburgh: 10
19. Texas: 7
20. Arizona: 6
T21. Chi. Cubs: 5
T21. Chi. White Sox: 5
T21. California: 5
T21. Washington: 5
25. Cleveland: 3
T26. San Diego: 2
T26. Tampa Bay: 2
T28. Colorado: 1
T28. Milwaukee: 1
30. Seattle: 0
It's amazing to think that in my lifetime, there have been exactly two World Series played in Chicago -- one for the White Sox (2005), and one for the Cubs (2016).
In my lifetime, 24 different teams have won the World Series. The Yankees have the most World Series crowns with seven.
ReplyDeleteDodgers chasing history this year. Last year, they became the first National League team to win back-to-back World Series since the Big Red Machine. No National League has ever won three World Series in a row.
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