By the Numbers: The World Series

September 23, 2019

By Jeanette Ferrara & Allan Molho

Batter up! For more than 100 years, Americans have gathered (almost) every fall to see which professional baseball team will be crowned best. The competition has been canceled only twice: once for a players’ strike in 1994 and the other in 1904 because of a bitter rivalry when the New York Giants refused to play the Boston Americans. The World Series consists of up to seven games. The first team to win four wins the championship!

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Years the Boston Red Sox went without winning a World Series because of the Curse of the Bambino, which began when the team traded Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. The losing streak ended in 2004.

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1995 Super Bowl (left); 1992 World Series (right)

Number of people who have played in both a World Series and a Super Bowl. Deion Sanders is the only athlete to do so.

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Times the N.Y. Yankees have won. That’s the most of any franchise!

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Length, in minutes, of the longest World Series game ever played. It was Game 3 last year between the Boston Red Sox and the L.A. Dodgers. That’s more than 7 hours!