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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.

1955 Brooklyn Dodgers

• They won the pennant by 13.5 games.
• Scored 857 runs while allowing 650 runs Finally beat the New York Yankees in The World Series.
• They had five future Hall of Famers on the team.
• Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Roy Campenella, and Sandy Koufax.

1961 New York Yankees

• They won 109 games.
• They had Six players with at least 20 home runs led by Mickey Mantle (54 home runs) and Roger Maris (61 home runs), setting a record for most home runs in a year.
• Beat the Reds in the World Series four games to one.

1969 Mets

• Because they finished the previous year 24 games out of first place.
• They had most of the same players in 1969 that they had in 1968.
• Because they seemed to create an aura of invincibility.
• This is one team for the ages.

1976 Cincinnati Reds

• Won all seven of their playoff games.
• Scored 857 runs while allowing 633.
• Seven pitchers with double digit wins.
• Won pennant by ten games. Three future Hall of Famers Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan and Tony Perez.

1984 Detroit Tigers

• Won the Eastern Division by 15 games.
• Started the season in first place and stayed there for the entire year.
• Winning 35 of their first 40 games.

1998 New York Yankees

• Won their division by 22 games.
• Including playoffs they won 125 games and lost only 50 games for an overall 714 winning per cent age.
• They scored more than 300 runs over their opponents. 965 runs—opposition 656 runs.
• Ten players with at least 10 home runs.

So there you have it. My greatest teams of all time.

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