“In the big inning, the Lord Said to Adam: ‘Beyond your love for me, family, and friends, this gift is to remind you of what else is really important in life.'”
On a day spent celebrating my little sweetheart Norma’s birthday, The Pecan Park Eagle pauses to put first things first: Love and Family own the lead here, even over baseball.
I did have time to work up a little sketch this morning, with the help of a table I constructed from data compiled by Baseball Almanac. The chart below shows the World Series record of every present and defunct team since the 1903 inception of the first such contest.
My categorizations are not pure. or example, I treat the entire Dodgers record as including all the time in Brooklyn, even those early years they were known as the Robins, through present day Los Angeles, because that franchise seems to prevail forever in our hearts and minds as “Dodgers then ~ Dodgers now. ~ Dodgers forever.” On the other hand, when a team like the old Senators moved to Minneapolis and became the Twins, when the Browns moved to Baltimore and became the Orioles, et cetera to all other city and name change examples, those such moves are treated here as the end of one identity and the beginning of another. The A’s life in three cities left the A’s, like Dodgers, still the A’s, but the Pilots early move to Milwaukee to become the new Brewers, was another identity shift, – in my mind, at least.
In addition to win/loss records, the table graph denotes the years that each team last reached and last won a World Series, if ever.
IN THE CHART BELOW, X DENOTES A TEAM IDENTITY THAT NO LONGER EXISTS.
Hope you find some enjoyment with this information.
Gotta go now. My lady awaits.
WORLD SERIES RECORD OF PRESENT AND PAST MAJOR LEAGUE TEAMS IN THE MODERN SERIES, 1903-2012:
| TEAMS | WON | LOST | WIN % | LAST WS | LAST WON |
| BLUE JAYS | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 1993 | 1993 |
| MARLINS | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 2003 | 2003 |
| ANGELS | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 2002 | 2002 |
| DIAMONDBACKS | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 2001 | 2001 |
| PIRATES | 5 | 2 | .714 | 1979 | 1979 |
| ATHLETICS | 9 | 4 | .692 | 1989 | 1989 |
| YANKEES | 27 | 13 | .675 | 2009 | 2009 |
| RED SOX | 7 | 4 | .636 | 2007 | 2007 |
| CARDINALS | 11 | 7 | .611 | 2011 | 2011 |
| WHITE SOX | 3 | 2 | .600 | 2005 | 2005 |
| REDS | 4 | 3 | .571 | 1990 | 1990 |
| TWINS | 3 | 3 | .500 | 1991 | 1991 |
| METS | 2 | 2 | .500 | 2000 | 1986 |
| ROYALS | 1 | 1 | .500 | 1985 | 1985 |
| TIGERS | 4 | 7 | .455 | 2012 | 1984 |
| ORIOLES | 3 | 4 | .429 | 1983 | 1983 |
| INDIANS | 2 | 3 | .400 | 1997 | 1948 |
| GIANTS | 7 | 12 | .368 | 2012 | 2012 |
| DODGERS | 6 | 12 | .333 | 1988 | 1988 |
| BRAVES | 3 | 6 | .333 | 1996 | 1995 |
| X – SENATORS | 1 | 2 | .333 | 1933 | 1924 |
| PHILLIES | 2 | 5 | .286 | 2009 | 2008 |
| CUBS | 2 | 8 | .200 | 1945 | 1908 |
| PADRES | 0 | 2 | .000 | 1984 | never |
| RANGERS | 0 | 2 | .000 | 2011 | never |
| ASTROS | 0 | 1 | .000 | 2005 | never |
| BREWERS | 0 | 1 | .000 | 1982 | never |
| RAYS | 0 | 1 | .000 | 2008 | never |
| ROCKIES | 0 | 1 | .000 | 2007 | never |
| X – BROWNS | 0 | 1 | ,000 | 1944 | never |
| MARINERS | never | ||||
| NATIONALS | never | ||||
| X- EXPOS | never | ||||
| X – PILOTS | never |
The Pecan Park Eagle 
October 10, 2013 at 11:49 pm |
Its time for my Cardinals to shock the world and win it all again! Please have your readers go to Kickstarter.com and type in Dreaming of the Majors and send it out to their social media family. We will be having another baseball movie next year, hopefully.
Lefty O’Neal
October 11, 2013 at 3:51 pm |
Add to that one glaring omission:
DODGERS 6W 12L .333PCT LAST WS 1988 LAST WON 1988
October 11, 2013 at 6:35 pm |
Thanks, Rick. That was a glaring omission.I had the data for posting, but in the manual transmission of the data, without a second person or a good discount double check system, I missed posting one of the most active World Series teams of all time. Thanks for letting me know.It’s right as rain now – I trust.
October 11, 2013 at 9:09 pm |
OK – everybody loves to hate the Yankees – HUH? well the numbers – if I am right reflect 109 World Series played between 1903 – 2012; NYY appeared in 37% of all those (Series) played and won 25% of all those (Series) played. The only other teams remotely close are the Cardinals and the Dodgers – and those teams numbers are really not that “close” to NYY….so there you have it