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American Association champion Union Association champion World Series champion 1880: Chicago White Stockings – – – 1881 – – – 1882: Cincinnati Red Stockings – – 1883: Boston Beaneaters: Philadelphia Athletics – – 1884: Providence Grays: New York Metropolitans: St. Louis Maroons: Providence Grays 1885: Chicago White Stockings ...
The 1967 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 10 to October 12, 1967. The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Boston Red Sox four games to three in the World Series, which was the first World Series appearance for the Red Sox in 21 years. Following the season, the Kansas City Athletics relocated to Oakland.
In The Arrival of the American League, author Warren N. Wilbert described the National League as having a monopoly on Major League Baseball at the time. [1] The Western League disbanded after the 1899 season so that owners Johnson and Comiskey could pursue major league options. [1] The Western League was re-created in a new form by a new owner.
[5] [6] [7] For the 2005 schedule, the MLB selected the Sports Scheduling Group, a small company located outside Pittsburgh, to craft the schedule for that year. Each year, the MLB considers the scheduling proposals from various external groups. The upcoming MLB regular season schedule is usually released while the current regular season is ...
The 2019 American League Division Series were two best-of-five series in Major League Baseball’s (MLB) 2019 postseason to determine the participating teams of the 2019 American League Championship Series. The three divisional winners, seeded first through third, and a fourth team—determined by the AL Wild Card Game—played in two series ...
The home run was the 6,106th home run league-wide of the season, breaking the previous record of 6,105 home runs that was set two years earlier during the 2017 season. [122] Major League Baseball finished with a total of 6,776 home runs. [123] For the 12th straight season, Major League Baseball set a new record for most strikeouts in a single ...
American League President and founder Ban Johnson, in center, surrounded by the portraits of the league's eight teams in 1907.. Originally a minor league known as the Western League, which existed from 1885 to 1899 with teams in mostly Great Lakes states, the league changed its name to the American League for the 1900 season and the next year developed into a second major league as a ...
The 2019 American League Championship Series was a best-of-seven series in Major League Baseball's 2019 postseason between the two winners of the 2019 American League Division Series; the overall #1 seed Houston Astros and the second-seeded New York Yankees, for the American League (AL) pennant and the right to play in the 2019 World Series.