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The 1976 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1976 season. The 73rd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the National League (NL) champion Cincinnati Reds and the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees .
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 1976 Major League Baseball season ended with the Cincinnati Reds winning their second consecutive World Series championship.. This was the last season of the expansion era (dating back to 1961) until 1993 in which the American League (AL) and the National League (NL) had the same number of teams.
An estimated 500,000 fans packed into Arlington’s entertainment district on Friday to celebrate the World Series champion Texas Rangers with a historic victory parade. Fans began to grab their ...
The Reds entered the season as the reigning World Series champions. The Reds dominated the league all season and won their second consecutive National League West title with a record of 102–60, finishing ten games ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers .
The 1976 American League Championship Series was a best-of-five playoff in Major League Baseball's 1976 postseason which pitted the New York Yankees against the Kansas City Royals for the American League pennant and the right to represent the American League in the 1976 World Series. The Yankees defeated the Royals in five games to advance to ...
The 1885 St. Louis Browns of the American Association. Beginning with an exhibition series after the American Association's birth in 1882, a championship series between the NL and AA regular-season champions was promoted and referred to as the "World's Championship Series" (WCS), or "World's Series" for short; however, these series are not officially recognized by Major League Baseball as part ...
Although it was named in 1985, the trophy was first awarded in 1967, when the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Boston Red Sox.Coincidentally, the 1967 World Series was nine months after the first Super Bowl, where the Green Bay Packers were awarded the AFL-NFL World Championship Trophy for defeating the Kansas City Chiefs (the trophy was renamed the Vince Lombardi Trophy prior to Super Bowl V ...