Douglas Daily Dispatch

World's Championship Record

The first world series was played between the Providence team and the Metropolitans in 1884.
Providence won three games and the series was over.
In 1887 when Detroit won the world championship, they played 14 games against St. Louis,
and Detroit won 10 games in the series. In 1889 New York played Brooklyn nine games.
winning six games and losing three. During the seasons 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896 and 1897, when the National league had 12 clubs, the winner and the runner-up would compete in a play-off for the Temple cup, offered by a Mr. Temple, an officer in the league.

Modern World Championships
After the Temple cup had been withdrawn, there were no world championship games played until the present American league and National league resumed the series in 1903, when Boston of the American league, and Pittsburgh of the National league, met in a series.
Boston won five games of the eight played. Since then, excepting in 1904, games have been played every year. President Brush of the National league would not give his permission for New York to play the Boston Americans that year.
In 26 different series the American league representatives have won 16 world championships and, National
American
1903—Pittsburgh Boston
1904 No series
1905—New York Philadelphia
1906—Chicago Chicago
1907—Chicago Detroit
1908 Chicago Detroit
1909—Pittsburgh Detroit
1910 Chicago Philadelphia
1911—New York Philadelphia
1912—New York Boston
1913—New York Philadelphia
1914—Boston Philadelphia
1915—Philadelphia Boston
1916—Brooklyn Boston
1917—New York Chicago
1918—Chicago Boston
1919 Cincinnati Chicago
1920—Brooklyn Cleveland
1921—New York New York
1922—New York New York
1923—New York New York
1924 New York Washington
1925—Pittsburgh Washington
1926—St. Louis New York
1927—Pittsburgh New York
1928 St. Louis New York
1929—Chicago Philadelphia
1930—St. Louis Philadelphia

the National league representatives have won 10 world championships.
The American league champions won world championships for a four-year period 1910 to 1913, inclusive, and repeated again from 1915 to 1918, inclusive, making seven out of eight world championships from 1910 to 1918, the only National league team to break the continuity was the Boston Braves of 1914, when they took four straight games from the Athletics to establish a new record.
During the last 10 years, the American league has been represented by only three teams, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, respectively.
The series now stands:
American league, 16 world championships.
National league, 10 world championships.

The American league has won 85 world series games and the National league has won 68 games.