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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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March 1946: Cardianl player Dick Sisler, swinging the bat. (Photo by Frank Scherschel/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
March 1946: Cardianl player Dick Sisler, swinging the bat. (Photo by Frank Scherschel/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) /

59. 1946 St. Louis Cardinals

98-58, NL Champions, Won World Series 4-3 Over Boston

The 1946 St. Louis Cardinals won an impressive 98 games, and spent the majority of the season staring up at the Brooklyn Dodgers in the National League standings before pulling ahead in late August and holding on to win the pennant with a two-game cushion. The Cardinals were taken to the brink by the Boston Red Sox in the World Series, but won club’s third World Championship in five years in a seven-game series.

Despite missing the entire 1945 season due to military service, Stan Musial returned to action in 1946 and picked up right where he left off by leading the National League in 11 offensive categories, including batting average (.365), slugging percentage (.587), OPS (1.021), runs scored (124) and doubles (50), and led all of baseball in hits (228), triples (20) and total bases (366). At the age of 25, Musial won his second NL MVP Award, and only teammate Enos Slaughter received another first place vote, and the outfielder finished third.

Slaughter – a 30-year old playing for the first time since 1942 because of military service – hit .300/.374/.465 with 18 home runs and led all of baseball with 130 RBI. Yet another teammate, Howie Pollett, finished fourth in the MVP race with a 21-10 record and 2.10 ERA in 266.0 innings across 40 games (32 starts).

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