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Major League Baseball’s World Series Sweeps
1927 New York Yankees – Murderers’ Row (bleacherreport.com)
Sports List of the Day has already checked out NBA Finals Sweeps and NHL Stanley Cup Sweeps. Well, it’s October, and here are your MLB World Series sweeps.
There have been 106 World Series played between 1903 and 2010. There was no World Series in 1904 and 90 years later, in 1994.
Twenty World Series have been sweeps.
The Yankees (here we go again) have the most sweeps – with eight. They’ve also been swept the most – three times.
Updated Oct 28, 2012: The 2012 San Francisco Giants swept the Detroit Tigers to become the 21st team to sweep their opponent in the World Series.
Follow @VinGetz| YEAR | WINNER | LOSER | |
| 1. | 1907 | Chicago Cubs | Detroit Tigers |
| 2. | 1914 | Boston Braves | Philadelphia Athletics |
| 3. | 1922 | New York Giants | New York Yankees |
| 4. | 1927 | New York Yankees | Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 5. | 1928 | New York Yankees | St. Louis Cardinals |
| 6. | 1932 | New York Yankees | Chicago Cubs |
| 7. | 1938 | New York Yankees | Chicago Cubs |
| 8. | 1939 | New York Yankees | Cincinnati Reds |
| 9. | 1950 | New York Yankees | Philadelphia Phillies |
| 10. | 1954 | New York Giants | Cleveland Indians |
| 11. | 1963 | Los Angeles Dodgers | New York Yankees |
| 12. | 1966 | Baltimore Orioles | Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 13. | 1976 | Cincinnati Reds | New York Yankees |
| 14. | 1989 | Oakland A’s | San Francisco Giants |
| 15. | 1990 | Cincinnati Reds | Oakland A’s |
| 16. | 1998 | New York Yankees | San Diego Padres |
| 17. | 1999 | New York Yankees | Atlanta Braves |
| 18. | 2004 | Boston Red Sox | St. Louis Cardinals |
| 19. | 2005 | Chicago White Sox | Houston Astros |
| 20. | 2007 | Boston Red Sox | Colorado Rockies |
