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Year American League Champion National League Champion World Series / Chronicle-Telegraph Cup Champion 1900 – Brooklyn Superbas: Brooklyn Superbas () : 1901
Start of Major League Baseball games depends on days of the week, game number in series, holidays, and other factors. As of 2021, most games start at 6:30 p.m., 7 p.m., or 7:30 p.m. in the local time zone, so there are more night games than day games even though baseball is traditionally played during the day.
The first line is the formation of the National League (NL) in 1876, and the second is the transformation of the American League (AL) to a major league in 1901. The third line is the beginning of the expansion era in 1961.
Season Level League Division Finish Wins Losses Win% GB Postseason Awards; Philadelphia Athletics: 1901: MLB: AL — 4th 74 62 .544 9 1902: MLB AL * — 1st 83 53 .610 — 1903: MLB AL — 2nd 75 60 .556 14½ 1904: MLB AL — 5th 81 70 .536 12½ 1905: MLB AL * — 1st 92 56 .622 — Lost World Series 4–1 * 1906: MLB AL — 4th 78 67 .538 12 ...
The 2020 Major League Baseball season began on July 23 and ended on September 27 with only 60 games amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.The full 162-game regular season was planned to begin on March 26, but the pandemic caused Major League Baseball (MLB) to announce on March 12 that the remainder of spring training was canceled and that the start of the regular season would be delayed by at least two ...
The 1958 Major League Baseball season began to turn Major League Baseball into a nationwide league. Walter O'Malley , owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers and "perhaps the most influential owner of baseball's early expansion era," [ 60 ] moved his team to Los Angeles, marking the first major league franchise on the West Coast. [ 61 ]
How the MLB playoffs work has changed over the history of the sport, especially of late. There was simply a World Series for 65 years (1903-1968) between the American League and National League ...
The 2018 season was the first time either league had more than two teams win 100 or more games in the same season; the Boston Red Sox, Houston Astros, and New York Yankees of the American League each won 100 or more games, with two led by rookie managers (no season had ever seen more than 100 wins from two managers before).