Baseball has been around since the late 1860's and so have baseball pennants, since they were a popular and easy way to show support for ones team. There are very few pennants left from those days and it is more common to find them from the first part of the 1900's.
In baseball, to "win the pennant" is to finish the season in first place of a division or league.
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 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.
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Chicago White Sox.
Boston Red Sox
The Cincinnati Reds.
To win the National League or the American League Championship in major league baseball. The two pennant winners face off in the World Series
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Paul G. Zinn has written: 'The major league pennant races of 1916' -- subject(s): Major League Baseball (Organization), Baseball, History 'The major league pennant races of 1916' -- subject(s): Baseball, History, Major League Baseball (Organization)
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The New York Giants won the National pennant in the Polo Grounds in NY. They beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in this historic gaame.