New York’s American League club, with 27 — 16 clear of the field. Every city’s count with appearances and years, the Los Angeles title that closed the last season, and the city rule behind the numbers.
Read the full story ↓No other table in the record book tilts like this one. New York’s American League club has 27 World Series wins from 41 appearances between 1921 and 2024; the next city, St. Louis, has 11. That gap of 16 is bigger than any other city’s entire total. Boston follows at 9, Los Angeles at 8, and then a group of four level at five.
| City | Wins | Appearances | First–last appearance |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York (AL) | 27 | 41 | 1921–2024 |
| St. Louis | 11 | 19 | 1926–2013 |
| Boston | 9 | 13 | 1903–2018 |
| Los Angeles | 8 | 14 | 1959–2025 |
| New York (NL) | 5 | 14 | 1905–1954 |
| Cincinnati | 5 | 9 | 1919–1990 |
| Philadelphia | 5 | 8 | 1905–1931 |
| Pittsburgh | 5 | 7 | 1903–1979 |
2025 closed with Los Angeles beating Toronto, the second title in a row for the city, which lifts Los Angeles to 8 since its first in 1959. It is the newest row in the ledger and the one the static lists have not caught up with.
Every card in this game names a team by its city and its years — never a nickname or a logo — and the championship ledger is counted the same way. That is why New York holds two rows: the American League club’s 27, and the National League club’s 5 won between 1905 and 1954, before it left the city. It is why Brooklyn’s title stays in Brooklyn rather than joining Los Angeles’s 8, and why Philadelphia’s 5 — all won by 1931 — belong to the city where the pennants flew, whatever the franchise did afterwards.
One team-year champions ledger, read season by season through 2025 and never past it — an unfinished season is excluded by construction. Wins and appearances are counted per city; ties are ordered by appearances, then by the ledger’s own team code. Every number here is read from that ledger on each build. The hitters who won these titles are measured in the same record book: the most home runs in a season and the average MLB player.
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New York's American League club, with 27 titles from 41 appearances between 1921 and 2024. St. Louis is a distant second at 11, then Boston at 9.
Los Angeles, over Toronto — back-to-back titles, which takes the city to 8 since its first in 1959. It is the freshest row in the ledger this page reads.
8, counting by city — the whole table on this page. Four of them are level at five, and the tie is broken by appearances.
Because two clubs won there. The American League club's 27 sit in one row; the National League club's 5, all won between 1905 and 1954, sit in another. The counts follow the city and the club, never a merged brand.
No. The 8 in this table were all won in Los Angeles, from 1959 on; Brooklyn's title is counted for Brooklyn. The same rule keeps Philadelphia's 5 — every one of them by 1931 — with the city where they were won.
That is the game this table scores: spin real franchise eras from the same seasons, draft an all-time lineup, and chase the perfect MLB season on the baseball board.
