1968 Detroit Tigers who won Games 6 and 7 at Busch Stadium in St. Louis against the Cardinals.
The world series is between the top american league team and the top national league team. There is no american league world series. The Texas Rangers were the american league team in the World Series. The St. Louis Cardinals from the national league beat them in seven games.
The American League pennant winner, plays the National League pennant winner, in a 7 game series. The team to win 4 games first wins the World Series.
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.
The winner of the All-Star Game determines home field advantage for the World Series. For example, if the National League wins the first two games of the World Series will be played in the National League ballpark before playing the next three in the American League ballpark.
The Major League Baseball team that won the 2012 World Series is the San Francisco Giants and they swept the Detroit Tigers of the American League in four games.
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.
The Angels defeated the Minnesota Twins, 4 games to 1, in the 2002 American League Championship Series to make it to the World Series.
Baseball's first modern World Series was in 1903. The American League's Boston Red Sox upset the New York Giants 5 games to 3, in a best of 9 series. The first baseball series called the World Series took place in 1882, with the American Association champion playing the National League champion. But those were considered exhibition games, and are not generally recognized as part of the World Series history.
The World Series in 2000 also known as the Subway series, the New York Yankees of the Eastern Division in the American League defeated the New York Mets of the Eastern Division in the National League by winning four games out of five games.
In the 2008 Major League Baseball, the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League is the team that won the series and they defeated the Tampa Bay Rays of the American League in five games.
The World Series is about a world championship against the National League champion and the American League champion. The World Series started in 1903 against the Boston Americans versus the Pittsburgh Pirates. Boston won 5 games to 3. As of today, there was 108 World Series played ever since then.
That was 2006 when the Tigers defeated the A's, 4 games to 0, in the American League Championship Series.