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The winner of the first half played the winner of the second half in each division in the 1981 American League Division Series. The winners played in the 1981 ALCS for the American League pennant. [103] b The leagues were re-aligned in 1994 to three divisions and a wild card was added to the playoffs, but the labor stoppage cancelled the ...
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 Athletics have had some bad periods of failure to counterbalance these golden eras. During and after World War I, the Athletics had nine consecutive losing seasons including the lowest win percentage in post-1900 major league baseball of .235 in 1916 and only 36 wins in 1919. Between 1934 and 1967 in Philadelphia and later Kansas City the ...
The American League Championship Series (ALCS) is a best-of-seven playoff and one of two League Championship Series comprising the penultimate round of Major League Baseball's (MLB) postseason. The winner of the ALCS wins the AL pennant and advances to the World Series , MLB's championship series, to play the winner of the National League 's ...
Roger Clemens won the most American League games in 1986 & 1987 for the Red Sox and 1997 & 1998 for the Blue Jays. Dave Stewart won 20 games in 1987, finishing second in AL wins the following three seasons. Josh Beckett's 20 wins in 2007 were best in the American League. Cliff Lee captured the Cy Young Award in 2008 in addition to winning 22 games.
The earliest predecessor to the American League was the Northwestern League, a minor league with teams based in the Midwestern United States. [1] Along with the National League and American Association, the Northwestern League was one of the three leagues that signed the National Agreement, an agreement wherein the signers covenanted to honor contractual agreements between players and teams ...
American League champion National League champion World Series / Chronicle-Telegraph Cup champion 1900 – Brooklyn Superbas: Brooklyn Superbas 1901: Chicago White Stockings: Pittsburgh Pirates – 1902: Philadelphia Athletics – 1903: Boston Americans: Boston Americans 1904: New York Giants – 1905: Philadelphia Athletics: New York Giants 1906
The American League (AL) leads the series with a 48–44–2 (.521) record, and a 388–380 run advantage. [1] The NL has the longest winning streak of 11 games from 1972 to 1982; the AL held a 13-game unbeaten streak from 1997 to 2009 (including a tie in 2002).