The 1908 Chicago Cubs (We Think.)
The Last Cubs Team to Win a World Series
Provided by Miriam Edelman
If you enjoyed our previous column on all World Series winners and losers, The Pecan Park Eagle hopes you may enjoy our own presentation of the New York Yankees record as a singular table of Awesome Triple X. Their record speaks for itself.
Derived and reorganized for this presentation from the same total World Series history assembled by Wikipedia, it makes it easier to show our millennial fans why some of us who grew up in one of the Yankee halcyon winning periods how it always felt a little illegitimate when the World Series was played in a year in which the American League was represented by some team other than the New York Yankees.
The facts remain. The Yankees have been to The Show 40 times since 1921 for an overall record of 27 World Series wins and 13 losses.
Wow. – Just WOW!
For fans like those of us in Houston, and pretty much everywhere else, it’s absolutely dream staggering. Our Astros have been there only once in 55 season opportunities when they reached the Grail of all baseball battles in 2005 – and even then, our guys couldn’t even win a game. in a four-game sweep by the Chicago White Sox.
If baseball were an issue-of-parity enterprise, one based upon the need to settle championship deprivations by a plan for creating compensatory victories that made it easy for all of our longtime losing and missing-out clubs, one per year, to take home the big prize every year until a state of balance had been achieved, the Astros and Rangers would both be near the front of the line at the check out stand, but that’s not the way the game is played. Thank God – or whomever or whatever fits into your belief system about the governance of good over evil.
A Reparation World Series Trophy would feel about as awful as it sounds. It would be no more satisfying to the recipient teams than those plastic trophies our 21st century culture still gives kids for showing up at little league level games, wearing uniforms they take for granted and didn’t buy for themselves in the first place. No, the only way to win a World Series is to out-plan, out-resource, out-develop, out-smart-spend, and outplay everybody else in a given year – even if it’s a tough road past many unfair obstacles. Nobody ever said it was going to be easy or fair, but it’s how we have to see our club get the job done to really have anything in the end that feels worthy of a celebration.
Oh yeah – Go Cubs!
The Big Picture World Series Complete Record of the New York Yankees
| YEAR | WINNER | MANAGER | GW-GL | LOSER | MANAGER | WSW/SL | ||
| 1921 | Giants | McGraw | 5-3 | YANKEES | Huggins | 0-1 | ||
| 1922 | Giants | McGraw | 4-0-1(T) | YANKEES | Huggins | 0-2 | ||
| 1923 | YANKEES | Huggins | 4-2 | Giants | McGraw | 1-2 | ||
| 1926 | Cardinals | Hornsby | 4-3 | YANKEES | Huggins | 1-3 | ||
| 1927 | YANKEES | Huggins | 4-0 | Pirates | Bush | 2-3 | ||
| 1928 | YANKEES | Huggins | 4-0 | Cardinals | McKechnie | 3-3 | ||
| 1932 | YANKEES | McCarthy | 4-0 | Cubs | Grimm | 4-3 | ||
| 1936 | YANKEES | McCarthy | 4-2 | Giants | Terry | 5-3 | ||
| 1937 | YANKEES | McCarthy | 4-1 | Giants | Terry | 6-3 | ||
| 1938 | YANKEES | McCarthy | 4-0 | Cubs | Hartnett | 7-3 | ||
| 1939 | YANKEES | McCarthy | 4-0 | Reds | McKechnie | 8-3 | ||
| 1941 | YANKEES | McCarthy | 4-1 | Dodgers | Durocher | 9-3 | ||
| 1942 | Cardinals | Southworth | 4-1 | YANKEES | McCarthy | 9-4 | ||
| 1943 | YANKEES | McCarthy | 4-1 | Cardinals | Southworth | 10-4 | ||
| 1947 | YANKEES | Harris | 4-3 | Dodgers | Shotton | 11-4 | ||
| 1949 | YANKEES | Stengel | 4-1 | Dodgers | Shotton | 12-4 | ||
| 1950 | YANKEES | Stengel | 4-0 | Phillies | Sawyer | 13-4 | ||
| 1951 | YANKEES | Stengel | 4-2 | Giants | Durocher | 14-4 | ||
| 1952 | YANKEES | Stengel | 4-3 | Dodgers | Dressen | 15-4 | ||
| 1953 | YANKEES | Stengel | 4-2 | Dodgers | Dressen | 16-4 | ||
| 1955 | Dodgers | Alston | 4-3 | YANKEES | Stengel | 16-5 | ||
| 1956 | YANKEES | Stengel | 4-3 | Dodgers | Alston | 17-5 | ||
| 1957 | M Braves | Haney | 4-3 | YANKEES | Stengel | 17-6 | ||
| 1958 | YANKEES | Stengel | 4-3 | M Braves | Haney | 18-6 | ||
| 1960 | Pirates | Murtaugh | 4-3 | YANKEES | Stengel | 18-7 | ||
| 1961 | YANKEES | Houk | 4-1 | Reds | Hutchinson | 19-7 | ||
| 1962 | YANKEES | Houk | 4-3 | SF Giants | Dark | 20-7 | ||
| 1963 | LADodgers | Alston | 4-0 | YANKEES | Houk | 20-8 | ||
| 1964 | Cardinals | Keane | 4-3 | YANKEES | Berra | 20-9 | ||
| 1976 | Reds | Anderson | 4-0 | YANKEES | Martin | 20-10 | ||
| 1977 | YANKEES | Billy Martin | 4-2 | LADodgers | Lasorda | 21-10 | ||
| 1978 | YANKEES | Lemon | 4-2 | LADodgers | Lasorda | 22-10 | ||
| 1981 | LADodgers | Lasorda | 4-2 | YANKEES | Lemon | 22-11 | ||
| 1996 | YANKEES | Torre | 4-2 | A Braves | Cox | 23-11 | ||
| 1998 | YANKEES | Torre | 4-0 | Padres | Bochy | 24-11 | ||
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Torre | 4-0 | A Braves | Cox | 25-11 | ||
| 2000 | YANKEES | Torre | 4-1 | Mets | Valentine | 26-11 | ||
| 2001 | D’Backs | Brenly | 4-3 | YANKEES | Torre | 26-12 | ||
| 2003 | Marlins | McKeon | 4-2 | YANKEES | Torre | 26-13 | ||
| 2009 | YANKEES | Girardi | 4-2 | Phillies | Manuel | 27-13 |
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The Pecan Park Eagle
Houston, Texas
The Pecan Park Eagle 
October 29, 2016 at 10:58 am |
The Yankees have not only shown all the successes you have demonstrated, but for the most part, they have avoided tanking when they haven’t been going to the World Series. For the past hundred years (1917-2016), they have finished last or next-to-last in winning percentage among AL teams only four times. Those years were 1925 (next-to-last), 1966 (last), 1967 (next-to-last), and 1990 (last). Yankee fans usually don’t have to watch struggling teams.
Bill Hickman
October 29, 2016 at 1:01 pm |
Nicely done but should it be 55 season opportunities for the Astros?
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October 29, 2016 at 1:42 pm |
Thanks Bob. The column and I both now stand corrected. I did the originally math in my head. Human error is what I get for not being a “calculating” writer.
October 29, 2016 at 5:02 pm |
I’m a lifelong Yankee fan having grown up in the Bronx where I was also a Yankee Tour guide in the old Yankee Stadium.Thanks to my father, I attended my only World Series in 1956 when I went to Yankee Stadium, which they won with an Enos Slaughter home run. This was a game or two before Don Larsen pitched his perfect game.
This was also the last game between the Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers after having played each other I believe nine times from 1941 through 1956.