Each has won only 1 in the Divisional Play era, 1969 to the present. But that's as many as have been

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"The Giants win the Pennant! online travel guides The Giants win the Pennant! The Giants win the Pennant! The Giants win the Pennant! ... The Giants win the Pennant! And they're going crazy! They're going crazy! Wa-hohhhhhhhh!... I don't believe it! I don't believe online travel guides it! I do not believe it!"
So the San Francisco Giants, the team of a town of union workers, intellectuals, gays and hippies, beats the St. Louis Cardinals, the team of a region online travel guides of rednecks and evangelicals. And, in the World Series, they're going to play the Detroit Tigers, the team of a town of union workers and minorities.
The Giants - in New York and San Francisco combined - have now won 22 National League Pennants: 1888, 1889, 1904, 1905, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1917, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1951, 1954, 1962, 1989, 2002, 2010 and 2012. They won the World Series in 1905, 1921, 1922, 1933, 1954 and 2002 -- 5 in New York, and 1 in San Francisco, for a total of 6.
Those 4 World Series online travel guides may not seem like much, but some of the other "Original 16" franchises that were playing in 1901 have won less: Boston/Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves 3 (1914, 1957, 1995, 1 in each city), St. Louis Browns/Baltimore Orioles 3 (1966, 1970, 1983), online travel guides Chicago White Sox 3 (1906, 1917, 2005), Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins 3 (1924, 1987, 1991), Chicago Cubs 2 (1907 and 1908), online travel guides Cleveland Indians 2 (1920 and 1948), Philadelphia Phillies 2 (1980 and 2008).
Each has won only 1 in the Divisional Play era, 1969 to the present. But that's as many as have been won by the Braves, White Sox, Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Arizona Diamondbacks; , and more than have been won by the Cubs, Indians, online travel guides Colorado Rockies, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners, Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers and Washington Nationals.
Previously, the closest calls were in 1908 (Giants blew it in the Fred Merkle Game and thereafter), 1934 (Giants blew it down the stretch), online travel guides and 1987 (both teams lost in their respective League Championship Series). I don't particularly care one way or the other -- I think they're both worthy champions -- but I'm thinking Tigers in 6. Their pitching gives them the edge.
October 23, 1869: John William Heisman is born in Cleveland. He coached several online travel guides college football teams, his tenure at Georgia Tech being the best-remembered. Upon his death in 1936, the national player of the year trophy first awarded the year before was named the Heisman Memorial Trophy in his memory.
October 23, 1876: The Chicago Tribune publishes season-ending batting percentages, based on the new method of dividing number of at-bats into number of hits. Roscoe "Ross" Barnes of the Chicago White Stockings (forerunners of the Cubs) leads with a .429 average thanks in part to the fair-foul rule. The following season the rule is changed so that a ball hit in fair territory and rolls foul before passing first/third base is a foul ball.
October 23, 1886: The American Association Champion St. Louis Browns online travel guides win the World Championship by beating the National League Champion Chicago White Stockings, 4-3 in 10 innings. This is the beginning of the rivalry between the teams now known as the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs, often (but hardly universally) considered the greatest in the National League.
Pitching online travel guides his 4th game in 6 days John Clarkson holds St. Louis hitless for 6 innings as Chicago builds a 3-0 lead. The Browns tie the game in the 8th and Curt Welch scores the "$15 000" run on a wild pitch in the 10th. St. Louis wins the entire gate receipts from the series ($13 920) with each of 12 players getting about $580.
October 23, 1894: Raymond Bloom Bressler is born in Coder, Pennsylvania. Rube Bressler was a pitcher-turned-outfielder, and a member of the Cincinnati Reds team that won the 1919 World Series. Like his teammate, future Hall-of-Famer Edd Roush, he was interviewed by Lawrence S. Ritter for his book The Glory of Their Times . And, like Roush, he insisted that the Reds would have won the Series even if the White Sox hadn t thrown it. He had a .301 lifetime online travel guides batting average and batted over .300 5 times.
October 23, 1905: Gertrude Caroline Ederle is born in Manhattan (although many reference online travel guides books had said 1906). In 1924, she was part of a U.S. women s swimming relay team that won an Olympic Gold Medal. In 1925, she swam the 21 miles from the southern tip of Manhattan Island to New Jersey's Sandy Hook in just 7 hours. On August 6, 1926, she not only became the first woman to swim the English Channel, but broke the existing men s record for fastest swim of it from 16 to 14 hours. Already hard of hearing, she eventually went deaf and spent much of her life teaching deaf children to swim. She lived to be 98.
October 23, 1910: The Philadelphia Athletics win the World Series for the first time, defeating the Chicago Cubs. The Cubs finish a streak of 4 Pennants in 5 seasons, and the A s have just begun an equal streak. Mordecai "Three-Finger" online travel guides Brown comes back to face Jack Coombs who takes a 2-1 lead into the 7th. The A's get to Brown for 5 runs and a 7-2 win.
The crowd of 27 374 at Shibe Park is the Series' largest. The A's .316 BA is a World Series record. For this Series cork-center balls were secretly used for the first time and will be used in the majors starting next year. Previously rubber-center balls were used.
The A's already have 3rd baseman Frank Baker, shortstop Jack Barry and 2nd baseman Eddie Collins. But 1st baseman John "Stuffy" McInnis online travel guides is still away from becoming a starter. When he does, those 4 will become known as "The $100,000 Infield." My, how quaint the figure now sounds -- about $1.8 million in today's money, combined, for those 4. Baker is also a year away from the achievement that will get him nicknamed "Home Run" Baker. Collins, Baker, pitcher Albert "Chief" Bender, and manager/part-owner Connie Mack will be elected to the Hall of Fame.
The last survivor of the Philadelphia A's teams that won the 1910, '11, '13 and '14 American League Pennants was center fielder Amos Strunk, who lived until 1979. The Phillies, discovering that he was the last living player who'd played at the first game at Shibe Park on April 12, 1909, invited him to attend the last game at what had been renamed Connie Mack Stadium on October 1, 1970. He angrily refused, even though he lived just outside Philadelphia in Drexel Hill, still angry with Mack after 60 years and not willing to be associated with him in any way.
October 23, 1915: Dr. William Gilbert online travel guides Grace dies of a heart attack. He was 67. I don t know much about cricket, but the native of Bristol, in England's West County, played at the top level of the sport for a record 44 seasons, from 1865 to 1908, and was regarded as the game s first modern batsman, and by many as its greatest player ever which certainly suggests that he was the greatest of its early years. Although he was a practicing physician, he was usually referred to publicly by his initials, W.G. Grace, rather than Dr. Grace.
October 23, 1923: Babe Ruth makes a post-season online travel guides appearance in a Giants uniform as the Giants defeat the Baltimore Orioles of the International League. 9-0. Ruth hits a home run over the right-field roof at the Polo Grounds. The game is a benefit for John B. Day, the now-destitute owner of the Giants online travel guides franchise from their arrival in New York in 1883 until 1892. He had also run the New York Metropolitans of the 1880s' American Association -- the "original New York Mets." He died in 1925, age 77.
October 23, 1925: John William Carson is born in Corning, Iowa. Or, as Ed McMahon would have said if he'd been in the delivery room, "And now, ladies and gentlemen, heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's Johnny!" Host of The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992, Johnny Carson made his share of sports jokes. For example: Well, it s fall again, and now, we here in Los Angeles can forget about the Dodgers, and concentrate on forgetting the Rams.
Every year, around Christmastime, Johnny would break out the ideal toy: Dickie the Stick! Dickie online travel guides the Stick was a very versatile toy. One time, Johnny demonstrated that, With Dickie the Stick, you can hit a baseball like Reggie Jackson! Or scratch like Pete Rose!
Also on this day, Frederick Alexander Shero is born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Freddie the Fog played 145 games as a defenseman for the New York Rangers between 1947 and 1950, but is much better known as a coach. He led the Philadelphia Flyers to the 1974 and 1975 Stanley online travel guides Cups the only ones that franchise online travel guides has ever won. He also coached the Rangers online travel guides to the 1979 Stanley Cup Finals.
His philosophy of hockey was simple: Take the shortest route to the puck, and arrive in ill humor. Before the clinching Game 6 in 1974, he told his Flyer players, We will win together now, and we will walk together forever.
October 23, 1931: The Brooklyn Baseball Club of the National League announces that Wilbert Robinson has been fired as manager, online travel guides and the club will be called the Robins only in the past tense. Max Carey a no-nonsense sort who had been a star outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates will take over next year. The team reverts to its original name: The Brooklyn Dodgers.
Also on this day, James Paul David Bunning is born in Southgate, Kentucky, outside Cincinnati. He is one of the few pitchers to win at least 100 games in both Leagues, and one of the few to pitch no-hitters online travel guides in both Leagues, including online travel guides a perfect game against the Mets at Shea Stadium in 1964. It was on Father s Day, and he had 6 children. He now has 9.
He served his native Kentucky in both houses of Congress, but the last few years, the very conservative Republican was one of the Senate s nuttier voices. Then again, pitching for the Phillies prior to 2007 (except for 1980) could do that to you. He is,