What Price Glory?
Except for 1904 and 1994, the World Series has been played every other year from 1903 through the presently unfolding 2016 version between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians. Those two cancellations were factually quite different, but they stand tall as excellent examples of how little the human ego had changed over 90 years when it came down to how selfish decisions gaining power over what probably would have been best for the common good of baseball – not killing the World Series each time – but that’s a much more complicated story for another day.
Today’s column is as simple or complex as your individual minds care to make it.
The chart shows each of the 16 original and 14 expansion franchises by their current names and league affiliations, plus, in the case of franchise clubs, the year they each came into being.
It’s a good perspective on the big picture of how clubs have fared – or not fared at all – in the World Series by the four bottom line column factors, moving left to right:
1) How many World Series has each franchise won?
2) How many World series has each team played?
3) In what year did each franchise last win, if at all?
4) In what year did each franchise last play?
Have fun looking things are over. It won’t be hard to find the one team that has best demonstrated the results one might expect when money, power, talent, and time are the lightly shaken, not stirred, results of a mogul culture’s favorite cocktail recipe for success.
Your own observations, comments, or questions will provide the heart of how the bare facts here either reinforce, or alter, your own perspective on what it takes to reach and collect baseball’s big prize – a World Series win.
World Series record by team or franchise, 1903–2016 *
* Compliments of Wikipedia
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Houston, Texas
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