The Phillies beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in 5 games to win the 2009 National League pennant and advance to the World Series to meet the American League Champion New York Yankees.
In 2009, the defending world champions defeated the Colorado Rockies and the Los Angeles Dodgers to reach the World Series for the second consecutive year.
As far as MLB is concerned, winning percentage doesn't really enter in to whether a team makes the playoffs or not. A team makes the playoffs by winning their division or being the team with the highest winning percentage of those other teams that did not win their division. There have been teams to make the playoffs with a record as 'poor' as 83-78, as did the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals who went on to win the World Series. There have been teams with records as good as 94-68 (1982 Baltimore Orioles) that did not make the playoffs. That goes to show that a team with a winning percentage of just over .500 can make the playoffs where a team with a winning percentage of .580 can miss the playoffs.
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1945 World Series BaseballsWhen the World Series was played in the American League ballpark, an Official American League Reach baseball was used, and when the World Series was played in the National League ballpark the Official National League Spalding baseball was used.It was not until 1978 when Rawlings first started to make World Series baseballs that features the World Series logo.
The team that had the best won/loss record among all teams in each league won their respective pennant and advanced to the World Series.
As of the 2008 season, that was the 1999 season when the Lions made the playoffs as a wild card team. They lost in the Wild Card round to the Washington Redskins, 27-13.
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The ALDS stands for 'American League Division Series', which is the third highest championship. (Right behind the ALCS and World Series) It is a best-out-of-five series, meaning the first one to reach three wins, moves on.
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By Junior Division I assume you mean what Little League calls the Junior League. I am afraid I cannot find that information. Little League's website, littleleague.org, has complete data for Central Region and Junior League World Series participants back through only the 2002 season. This year's team from Glendale is the only team I have found that has made the World Series. Teams from Wisconsin in the Central Region playoffs from 2002-2007 have come from Oak Creek, Franklin Little League, Whitefish Bay, Madison, and the last two years from Glendale. They list an email address of webmaster at littleleague.org to direct questions and comments. You might try contacting them to see if they have any information. The city of Taylor, Michigan, where the Junior League World Series is held, also has a website that has a section devoted to the World Series. Unfortunately, other than a list of past champions, there is no historical data to be found. They do list an email address to reach the World Series Director Greg Bzura (gregb at wwwnet.net) and Director of Public Information for both the City of Taylor and the World Series David Gorgon (taylornews at aol.com).
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