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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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BRONX, NY – OCTOBER 25: Florida Marlins players celebrate with the World Series Trophy after defeating the New York Yankees in game six of the Major League Baseball World Series on October 25, 2003 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York. The Marlins won 2-0. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
BRONX, NY – OCTOBER 25: Florida Marlins players celebrate with the World Series Trophy after defeating the New York Yankees in game six of the Major League Baseball World Series on October 25, 2003 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York. The Marlins won 2-0. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) /

106. 2003 Florida Marlins

91-71, NL Wild Card, Won World Series 4-2 Over New York

Eight Major League Baseball franchises have never won a World Series. Two have never even made it to the Fall Classic. The Chicago Cubs haven’t won it all in 107 years. It took 97 seasons for the Philadelphia Phillies to win the World Series for the first time (1980), and 28 years for them to win a second (2008).

But in 2003, the Florida Marlins won the second World Series in the ten-year history of the franchise.

After posting a 91-71 record in the regular season, and finishing ten games behind the Atlanta Braves in the NL East, the Marlins beat San Francisco 3-1 in the NLDS and survived in seven games against the Cubs in the NLCS (with a little help from Steve Bartman in a Game 6 ninth-inning comeback).

Josh Beckett shut out the New York Yankees in Game 6 of the World Series, and was named World Series MVP for posting a 1.10 ERA in 16.1 innings, and the 23-year old Beckett was one of the centerpieces of a young nucleus of players that included Brad Penny, Juan Pierre, Derrek Lee and Luis Castillo, as well as Dontrelle Willis and Miguel Cabrera in addition to veterans Mike Lowell and Ivan Rodriguez.

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