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From: crisp@iwu1a.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Winningest Baseball teams
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Date: Thu, 5-Jul-84 12:02:45 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  5 12:02:45 1984
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I'm getting tired of the inaccuracies concerning the American league
record for wins in a season.  It was not the 1950 Indians.  In 1950 the
Yankees blitzed the Philadelphia Whiz kids.  In 1948 Boston and Cleveland
tied for the pennant.  The Indians won the one game playoff and bested the 
Boston BRAVES for the World Series Championship.  The American League is
114 victories by the 1954 Indians.  A team that featured Vic Wertz, Bobby
Availa(MVP), Al Rosen, George Strickland, Lary Doby, Al Smith, Dave Pope,
Jim Heagon, and a pitching staff of Bob Feller, Bob Lemon, and Mike Garcia.

They lost the series to the New York Giants in four games.  Dusty Rhodes
doing much of the damage for the Giants.  A young player named Willie Mays
also made his prescence felt.