The Pecan Park Eagle

“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: