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Authors: Stephanie Peters

BOOK: The World Series

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Babe Ruth's legendary Called Shot. Jackie Robinson stealing home. Carlton Fisk waving the ball fair. Kirk Gibson hobbling
around the bases. Mention errors like Fred Snodgrass's dropped shot and Billy Buckner's failure to field an easy grounder
to a true baseball fan, and you're certain to get a heated response.

There's just something about the sport — the crack of the bat that signals a home run, the suspense of the no-hitter, the
split second before the umpire calls the runner safe or out — that keeps people coming back for more. As Hall-of-Famer Rogers
Hornsby once said, “People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window
and wait for spring.”

World Series Results

1900s
1903	Boston Red Sox 5, Pittsburgh 3
1904	Not Held
1905	New York Giants 4, Philadelphia A's I
1906	Chicago White Sox 4, Chicago Cubs 2
1907	Chicago Cubs 4, Detroit 0 (one tie)
1908	Chicago Cubs 4, Detroit I
1909	Pittsburgh 4, Detroit 3
1910	Philadelphia A's 4, Chicago Cubs I
1911	Philadelphia A's 4, New York Giants 2
1912	Boston Red Sox 4, New York Giants 3 (one tie)
1913	Philadelphia A's 4, New York Giants I
1914	Boston Braves 4, Philadelphia A's 0
1915	Boston Red Sox 4, Philadelphia Phillies I
1916	Boston Red Sox 4, Brooklyn I
1917	Chicago White Sox 4, New York Giants 2
1918	Boston Red Sox 4, Chicago Cubs 2
1919	Cincinnati 5, Chicago White Sox 3
1920s
1920	Cleveland 5, Brooklyn 2
1921	New York Giants 5, New York Yankees 3
1922	New York Giants 4, New York Yankees 0 (one tie)
1923	New York Yankees 4, New York Giants 2
1924	Washington 4, New York Giants 3
1925	Pittsburgh 4, Washington 3
1926	St. Louis Cardinals 4, New York Yankees 3
1927	New York Yankees 4, Pittsburgh 0
1928	New York Yankees 4, St. Louis Cardinals 0
1929	Philadelphia A's 4, Chicago Cubs 1
1930s
1930	Philadelphia A's 4, St. Louis Cardinals 2
1931	St. Louis Cardinals 4, Philadelphia A's 3
1932	New York Yankees 4, Chicago Cubs 0
1933	New York Giants 4, Washington 1
1934	St. Louis Cardinals 4, Detroit 3
1935	Detroit 4, Chicago Cubs 2
1936	New York Yankees 4, New York Giants 2
1937	New York Yankees 4, New York Giants 1
1938	New York Yankees 4, Chicago Cubs 0
1939	New York Yankees 4, Cincinnati 0
1940s
1940	Cincinnati 4, Detroit 3
1941	New York Yankees 4, Brooklyn 1
1942	St. Louis Cardinals 4, New York Yankees 1
1943	New York Yankees 4, St. Louis Cardinals 1
1944	St. Louis Cardinals 4, St. Louis Brown 2
1945	Detroit 4, Chicago Cubs 3
1946	St. Louis Cardinals 4, Boston Red Sox 3
1947	New York Yankees 4, Brooklyn 3
1948	Cleveland 4, Boston Braves 2
1949	New York Yankees 4, Brooklyn I
1950s
1950	New York Yankees 4, Philadelphia 0
1951	New York Yankees 4, New York Giants 2
1952	New York Yankees 4, Brooklyn 3
1953	New York Yankees 4, Brooklyn 1
1954	New York Giants 4, Cleveland 0
1955	Brooklyn 4, New York Yankees 3
1956	New York Yankees 4, Brooklyn 3
1957	Milwaukee Braves 4, New York Yankees 3
1958	New York Yankees 4, Milwaukee Braves 3
1959	Los Angeles 4, Chicago White Sox 2
1960s
1960	Pittsburgh 4, New York Yankees 3
1961	New York Yankees 4, Cincinnati I
1962	New York Yankees 4, San Francisco 3
1963	Los Angeles 4, New York Yankees 0
1964	St. Louis 4, New York Yankees 3
1965	Los Angeles 4, Minnesota 3
1966	Baltimore 4, Los Angeles 0
1967	St. Louis 4, Boston 3
1968	Detroit 4, St. Louis 3
1969	New York Mets 4, Baltimore I
1970s
1970	Baltimore 4, Cincinnati I
1971	Pittsburgh 4, Baltimore 3
1972	Oakland 4, Cincinnati 3
1973	Oakland 4, New York Mets 3
1974	Oakland 4, Los Angeles I
1975	Cincinnati 4, Boston 3
1976	Cincinnati 4, New York Yankees 0
1977	New York Yankees 4, Los Angeles 2
1978	New York Yankees 4, Los Angeles 2
1979	Pittsburgh 4, Baltimore 3
1980s
1980	Philadelphia 4, Kansas City 2
1981	Los Angeles 4, New York Yankees 2
1982	St. Louis 4, Milwaukee 3
1983	Baltimore 4, Philadelphia I
1984	Detroit 4, San Diego I
1985	Kansas City 4, St. Louis 3
1986	New York Mets 4, Boston 3
1987	Minnesota 4, St. Louis 3
1988	Los Angeles 4, Oakland I
1989	Oakland 4, San Francisco 0
1990s
1990	Cincinnati 4, Oakland 0
1991	Minnesota 4, Atlanta 3
1992	Toronto 4, Atlanta 2
1993	Toronto 4, Philadelphia 2
1994	Not Held
1995	Atlanta 4, Cleveland 2
1996	New York Yankees 4, Atlanta 2
1997	Florida 4, Cleveland 3
1998	New York Yankees 4, San Diego 0
1999	New York Yankees 4, Atlanta 0
2000s
2000	New York Yankees 4, New York Mets I
2001	Arizona 4, New York Yankees 3
2002	Anaheim 4, San Francisco 3
2003	Florida 4, New York Yankees 2
2004	Boston 4, St. Louis 0
2005	Chicago White Sox 4, Houston 0

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