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The Mariners and Nationals are the only two teams left to never have made a world series appearance.
Both teams basically accomplished this twice. Depending on if you're looking at the year or season in the NFL.The Pittsburgh Steelers won Super Bowl XIV on January 20, 1980 and the Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series in 1980.They also did it again in 2008, if you count the season that the Steelers were crowned champions. The Steelers were the NFL champions for the 2008 season, after winning the Super Bowl on February 1, 2009. The Phillies were World Series champions in 2008.
The 2006 American League champions are the Detroit Tigers and the 2006 National League Champions are the St. Louis Cardinals. These two teams are playing in the 2006 World Series. Cardinals and Detroit -----Update: The Cardinals beat the Tigers 4 games to 1 to win the 2006 World Series.
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The 1980 NFL champions were the Oakland Raiders. The 1980 World Series champions were the Philadelphia Phillies. The 1980 NBA champions were the Los Angeles Lakers.
Philadelphia Phillies - (1980 World Series Champions)Philadelphia 76ers - (1982-83 NBA Champions)
As of the 2010 World Series, American League teams have claimed 62 world championships, while National League clubs have won 43.
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.
Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles. Pirates became world champions by winning game 7 and coming back from a 3 game to one game deficit.
The pitchers who have been on the most World Series winning teams are Johnny Murphy and Herb Pennock who were on 7 World Series champions. Murphy won all 7 with the Yankees and Pennock won 2 with the Red Sox and 5 with the Yankees.
There are 4 teams in each the American, and National League that make the playoffs. Each league has three division winners, and a wild card team that play each other in the playoffs. The winning team of each league plays in the World Series in a best of 7 format. The team that wins 4 games first are the World Champions..
The Chicago Cubs won their second World Series in a row...and their last.
The Seattle Mariners, the Washington Nationals, and the Texas Rangers are the only teams that have never made it to the World Series.
American Professional Baseball is made up into 2 divisions or leagues. After a season of play and a couple of weeks of playoffs the 2 leagues, the American and National send their champions to the World Series. Although called the World Series there are only American teams participating. The recent World baseball classic showed American baseball is not the only dominate team around.
All teams that have won the Super Bowl have become world champions. Since the 1970 merger of the National Football League and the American Football League, the Super Bowl winners have been considered NFL champions.
There have been alot of teams that have won the world series after starting 4-2.