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Ranking every World Series winners in history

By Staff

UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 05: Brooklyn Dodgers president Walter O'Malley and his manager, Walter Alston, exchange hugs and grins after bringing Brooklyn its first World Series championship in history. Flock did it the hard way, winning the final game in Yankee Stadium. (Photo by NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 05: Brooklyn Dodgers president Walter O'Malley and his manager, Walter Alston, exchange hugs and grins after bringing Brooklyn its first World Series championship in history. Flock did it the hard way, winning the final game in Yankee Stadium. (Photo by NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images) /
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BOSTON – 1918. Babe Ruth, Red Sox pitcher, warms up on the sidelines of Boston’s Fenway Park in 1918. (Photo by Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images)
BOSTON – 1918. Babe Ruth, Red Sox pitcher, warms up on the sidelines of Boston’s Fenway Park in 1918. (Photo by Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images) /

104. 1918 Boston Red Sox

75-51, AL Champions, Won World Series 4-2 Over Chicago

With the fewest regular season victories ever by a World Series Champion (because the season was cut short by World War I), the 1918 Boston Red Sox won 75 of 126 regular season games and beat the Cleveland Indians by 2.5 games in the American League standings before defeating the Chicago Cubs in six games to claim what would be the last World Series title for the franchise for 86 seasons.

The man at the center of the Curse of the Bambino, 23-year old Babe Ruth, led all of baseball with 11 home runs in only 95 games in 1918. No other player on his team had more than a single round-tripper. Only a part-time outfielder, Ruth also posted a 13-7 record and a 2.22 ERA in 20 appearances as a pitcher, including 19 starts.

Ruth was part of an outstanding pitching staff that allowed only 287 earned runs all season and included Carl Mays (21-13, 2.21), Bullett Joe Bush (15-15, 2.11), Sad Sam Jones (16-5, 2.25) and Dutch Leonard (8-6, 2.72)

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