new york yankees baseball team holds the record for most world series wins.
new york yankees baseball team holds the record for most world series wins.
what baseball team holds the record for most world series wins?
new york yankees
this was the athletics' fifth world series championship win (following , , and ), and their last in philadelphia before moving to kansas city in 1955 and then oakland in 1968—where they have since won four more world series titles (, , , and ). their win this year tied them with the boston red sox for most world series wins as of that point (five) until , when the new york yankees surged ahead of both in world series wins and have gone on to amass 27 world series championships as of 2018.
1930 world series
this was the yankees' third series win over the giants (1923, 1936), finally giving them an overall edge in series wins over the giants with three fall classic wins to the giants' two (after they lost the and 1922 series to the giants). currently (), the st. louis cardinals are the only "classic eight" national league (1900–1961) team to hold a series edge over the bronx bombers, with three wins to the yankees' two. the 1937 victory by the yankees also broke a three-way tie among themselves, the philadelphia athletics and the boston red sox for the most world series wins all-time (five each). by the time the athletics and red sox won their sixth world series (in 1972 and 2004, respectively), the yankees had far outpaced them in world championships with 20 in 1972 and 26 in 2004.
1937 world series