World Series appeared in 9 and won 5. As of 2018, no team has won consecutive World Series championships since the New York Yankees in , , and —the longest such drought in Major League Baseball history. Until the formation of the American Association in 1882 as a second major league, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (1871–1875) and then the National League (founded 1876) represented the top level of organized baseball in the United States. All championships were awarded to the team with the best record at the end of the season, without a postseason series being played. From
World Series Baseball 2K1 time. Unfortunately, a lack of features, shoddy audio presentation, and major gameplay flaws meant that "WSB2K1" was not well received by critics despite its fantastic graphics. The game is notorious for its sometimes-unresponsive controls, as well as the fact that manual fielding—a staple of baseball games for a half-decade prior to "WSB2K1"'s release—isn't even an option available to players. After the debacle that was "World Series Baseball 2K1", Sega decided to bring Visual Concepts (the developer behind the Dreamcast's far more successful "NBA 2K" and "NFL 2K" series) in for the next version of the game. The result was "World