The Yankees won their first American League Pennant in 1921.
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.
Tony La Russa - Oakland Athletics
Andrew Baily (Oakland) - American League 2009 ROY Chris Coghlan (Florida) - National League 2009 ROY
The first National League pennant captured by the San Francisco Giants was in 1888, when they were known as the New York Giants.
From 1996 to 2000, the N.Y. Yankees won the World Series every year, except in 1997. That year the Cleveland Indians won the American League pennant and were defeated by the National League Florida Marlins in seven games.
The New York Yankees won the American League Pennant in 1949. The Yankees with a record of 97-57 finished one game ahead of the Boston Red Sox. Boston finished first in almost every hitting category that year. The New York Yankees went on to beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1949 World Series.
The Kansas City Chiefs won the last American football league championship in 1969 beating the Oakland Raiders 17 to 7. That was the year they won super bowl IV
The Yankees won their last AL Pennant on October 25, 2009 defeating the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 4 games to 2. They went on to defeat the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series 4 games to 2.
The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant was created in 1954.
The Yankees won the pennant every year in the 1950s, except for 1954, when the Cleveland Indians won and 1959, when the Chicago White Sox won. By coincidence, the same man managed both of those teams. The manager was Al Lopez.