To win the National League or the American League Championship in major league baseball. The two pennant winners face off in the World Series
Chicago White Sox.
Boston Red Sox
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.
In baseball, to "win the pennant" is to finish the season in first place of a division or league.
For the American League the pennant winners were the Chicago Whitesox. (This was the first year the AL was elevated to Major League level. For the National League the pennant winners were the Pittsburg Pirates. No World Series was held this year.
The pennant race is a baseball term used to describe the time period towards the end of the year, around mid-late august and on to the playoffs. The pennant is the name for the championship of the division, whether it be the national league or the American league, and the race is all the games leading up to the World Series that determine who will represent each league.
The Detroit Tigers won the 1940 American League Pennant.
When a team makes it to the championship. Like in baseball a team wins the pennant when they make it to the world series.
The 1965 Minnesota Twins won the American League pennant with 102 wins. They also won the pennant in 1987 and the World Series.
The Yankees won their first American League Pennant in 1921.
The 1919 winner of the American League pennant in baseball was the Chicago White Sox. However, it is important to note that the 1919 World Series in which they were a participant became infamous for the "Black Sox Scandal," as several players on the team were accused of conspiring to intentionally lose games.