Monday, April 4, 2011

My Top Baseball Teams of All Time (In No Particular Order)

By Aron Wallad

 

1902 Pittsburgh Pirates

Record of 103 Wins and 36 Losses

Won the Pennant by 27.5 games

Scored 775 runs and allowed 440 runs

Five pitchers with 15 wins and all five with era under 2.55

They were Jack Chesbro, Deacon Phillippe,
Sam Leever, Jesse Tannenbill and Ed Doheny

There was no World Series in 1902

1904 Boston Red Sox

Captured the pennant by 14.5 games

Won the World Series over a great Pittsburgh team five games to three

Had three twenty game winners, led by
Cy Young

1905 New York Giants

Record of 105 Wins and 48 Losses, Won World Series beating Philadelphia A's in five games

Scored 780 runs and gave up 505 runs.

Had five pitchers with 15 wins led by
Hall of Famers Christy Mathewson and Joe McGinnity
Christy Mathewson won three World Series games. All three were shutouts. He pitched on
October 9, 12, and 14th and gave up a total of
14 hits and one walk in 27 innings.

1927 New York Yankees

With a 110 and 44 record they won the pennant
by 19 games and beat the Pirates 4-0 in the World Series.
Scored 975 runs and allowed 599 runs.

Six players in the Hall of Fame: Ruth, Gehrig,
Tony Lazzeri, Earl Coombs, Waite Hoyt and Herb Pennock. All three outfielder batted at least 337 each (Ruth, Combs and Bob Meusel) that year.

1929 Philadelphia A's

Won pennant by 19 games. Outscoring their opposition 901-615. Winning 104 games and losing 46.

Won World Series 4-1 over the Cubs

Had five future Hall of Famers
Jimmy Foxx, Al Simmons, Mickey Cochrane,
Lefty Grove and Eddie Collins

1932 New York Yankees

Won the pennant by 13 games, outscoring their opponents 1002 runs to 724 runs.

Their starting lineup (excluding pitchers)
had six future Hall of Famers and two All Stars

Hall of Famers are Ruth, Gehrig, Lazzeri,
Bill Dickey, Joe Sewell and Earl Coombs

All Stars were Frank Crosetti and Ben Chapman

The pitching staff had three future Hall of Famers
Herb Pennock, Lefty Gomez and Red Ruffing

Won World Series over the Cubs 4 games to 0.

1934 St Louis Cardinals

Won the World Series 4-3 over a great Tiger team

Five Future Hall of Famers on the team

Dizzy Dean, Dazzy Vance, Frankie Frisch,
Leo Durocher and Joe Medwick

1936 New York Yankees

Scored 1065 runs and allowed 731

Won pennant by 19.5 games and beat the NY Giants 4 games to 2 in the World Series

Five players with at least 100 RBIs and

Six pitchers with at least 12 wins.

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