November 22, 2009
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Most recent consecutive pennants for all franchisesby Chris JaffeOctober 22, 2009 Congrats to the Philadelphia Phillies, who just won consecutive pennants for the first time in their history. That brings up the question: what are the most recent back-to-back pennants for all 30 teams? Well, obviously not all 30 teams have done it, but which ones have? Before checking, can you name: - The only two pre-expansion teams who haven't won consecutive pennants? - The only expansion team to have ever done it? Here they are: most recent repeat pennants from all the franchises who have done so, ordered from the present on backwards, broken up in groups of five to make it easier to read: PHI 2008-2009 NYY 1998-2001 ATL 1995-1996 TOR 1992-1993 OAK 1988-1990 LAD 1977-1978 CIN 1975-1976 BAL 1969-1971 STL 1967-1968 NYG 1937-1938 (now SFG) DET 1934-1935 WAS 1924-1925 (now MIN) BOX 1915-1916 CHC 1906-1908 PIT 1901-1903 If you really want to go back, some now dormant teams like the 1890s Baltimore Orioles also won consecutive pennants, but how cares - they're dormant now. Cleveland and the White Sox have never done it. Blame the Yankees - both teams tallied up a slew of second place finishes during New York's most dominant stretch, 1949-1964. The Phillies were thus the last pre-expansion NL team to do it. Kudos to them. History instructor by day, statnerd by night, Chris Jaffe leads one of the most exciting double lives imaginable; with the exception of every other double life possible to imagine. Despite his lack of comic-book-hero-worthiness, Chris enjoys farting around with this stuff. His new book, Evaluating Baseball's Managers is available for pre-order. Chris welcomes responses to his articles via e-mail.
Nasty Nate said...
Everyone else uses “BOS” instead of “BOX” nowadays. The Braves moved away like 50 years ago, no one will be confused by BOS. Posted 10/22 at 11:22 AM
Chris J. said...
Eric - thanks for the correction. That was sloppy on my part. Nate - I just like referring to them as “BOX.” At any rate, given that the years under question came over 50 years ago, it actually helps to distinguish them. (That said, I’d refer to them as BOX anyway - I just like it better). Posted 10/22 at 11:32 AM
Tony A said...
You can not only thank the Yankees for the Chisox’s failure to do 2 in a row, but also Landis/Black Sox scandal. The Chisox were shaping up as a pretty awesome team beginning in 1917, probably would have added ‘20 to ‘19 for 2 in a row, and might have contended thereafter… Posted 10/22 at 03:27 PM
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The Cubs won the ‘38 pennant (Homer in the Gloaming). The Giants’ consecutive wins were in ‘36 and ‘37.