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The 1899 Cleveland Spiders own the worst single-season record of all time (minimum 120 games) and for all eras, finishing at 20–134 (.130 percentage) in the final year of the National League's 12-team era in the 1890s; for comparison, this projects to 21–141 under the current 162-game schedule, and Pythagorean expectation based on the Spiders' results and the current 162-game schedule ...
Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? is a 1963 book by journalist Jimmy Breslin, about the 1962 New York Mets. [1] [2] The book chronicles the first season of the Mets, an expansion team that lost 120 games, which was a modern MLB record until 2024, when it was broken by the Chicago White Sox with 121 (though the White Sox would avoid having a worst winning percentage by comparison to that same ...
The absolute worst team in baseball history. The one team the White Sox will not surpass is the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, who posted a record of 20-134, for a "winning" percentage of .130.
And so, for a team that’s 31-109, that’s 7-48 in its last 55 games, that’s a worst-in-history 4-38 since the All-Star break, that’s been outscored by more than 300 runs and that will ...
In 1898 the Spiders finished a respectable fifth in the NL, but dead last out of twelve teams in attendance at only 70,496 for the entire season. In contrast the St. Louis Browns (now Cardinals) were by far the worst team on the field but still drew respectable crowds by the standards of the time, especially considering the team's poor performance.
The two franchises are mirror images of ineptitude, playing a game where even the winner was still going to be an all-time loser.
The A's team was decimated, and within two years they limped to the worst single-season win-loss percentage in modern baseball history (36-117, .235); it would be over a decade before they recovered. 1917–1918 suspicions
If you’re a fan of Chicago’s professional sports teams, then it’s been a mostly forgettable year. Okay, there have been a few highlights. The Blackhawks selected 17-year-old Canadian phenom ...