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∙ 2007-10-03 17:10:03As of the 2007 season, the Cubs have waited 99 years to win a World Series. Their last World Series victory came in 1908. The longest streak before that belonged to the Philadelphia Phillies who entered the National League in 1883 and won their first and only World Series in 1980, a length of 97 years. Currently, after the Cubs, the longest World Series victory drought is the Cleveland Indians who last won the Series in 1948. After the Indians comes the Giants who last won a World Series in 1954.
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∙ 2007-10-03 17:10:03Through the 2010 season, that is the Houston Astros with 9 playoff appearances without a World Series win.
In 1955 there was no playoff format. The winner (team with the best record) of the American League played the winner of the National League. The Brooklyn Dodgers beat the New York Yankees in the 1955 World Series.
The playoff race in Baseball is when the teams from each league play to have the highest game winning to make it to the playoffs and try to get to the world series. One team from each division makes it and the teams that come in fourth in each League get the wild card and also advance.
The baseball playoff competitions are structured so the team that advances and wins the World Series must win 11 games. The breakdown is as follows: American/National League Division Series - Best 3 of 5 games American/National League Championship Series - Best 4 of 7 games World Series - Best 4 of 7 games.
There are 5 games in the Divisional Series (win 3 of 5)) and 7 games in the Championship Series (Win 4 of 7).
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The Divisional playoffs are in a best of 5 games format, while the Championship and World Series are in best of 7 formats.
You did not mention at what level of baseball you are asking. But in every level there is a playoff system. Most levels from Little League to the Major League it is called the World Series. In the Major Leagues the World Series is determined by a best-of-seven game series between one American League team and one National League team. Whoever wins 4 games first wins the World Series.
No, only division winners can host the divisional round of the playoffs.
The first baseball playoff that is generally regarded as part of the "World Series" was played in 1903, and won by the Boston American League team, now known as the Red Sox.
Game Four of the 1971 World Series, on 1971 October 13, was the first post-season MLB game played at night.
The answer is "Gene Bearden."