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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]
Connie Mack in 1916. Connie Mack is the all-time leader in career wins and losses by a manager. This article contains a list of all Major League Baseball managers with at least 1,000 career regular season wins, a list of managers who have regular season win percentages of at least .540 in at least 400 games (2.5 full seasons), and a list of all-time World Series win-loss records. [1]
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The three-time National League Manager of the Year (1993, 1997, 2000) is the only manager in MLB history to lead five different teams to the postseason and to win division titles with five ...
† Due to the strike that took place in the middle of the 1981 season, Major League Baseball crowned both a "first half" (pre-strike) and "second half" (post-strike) division champion. The teams were then matched against each other in a special division series.
He is the only manager to win a championship with the Blue Jays; the team won consecutive championships in 1992 and 1993, [119] becoming the only team to date based outside of the United States to win a World Series and, upon completing their 1993 victory, the first team to win a World Series on foreign soil. [121]
The 74-year-old leaves his position as one of the most successful managers in Major League Baseball (MLB) history. Dusty Baker, the World Series winning manager of the Houston Astros, announced ...
[6] [8] [9] The team lost the World Series in 1905, 1914 and 1931, and no World Series was played when the Athletics won the AL championship in 1902. [6] [9] After Jimmy Dykes replaced Mack as the Athletics' manager in 1951, no manager served more than three consecutive seasons until Tony La Russa, who became the Athletics' manager in 1986. [6]