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 of Poker multiple bracelet winners game bracelets in the same year. World Series of Poker multiple bracelet winners Below is a list of all poker players who have won multiple World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets, together with the year(s) in which the bracelets were won. The first person to win three bracelets in the same WSOP was Walter "Puggy" Pearson, at the 1973 WSOP. Since 1973, only five other players have won three bracelets in a single year, which encompasses the WSOP and either the WSOPE or WSOP APAC. Johnny Moss, with a win at the 1971 WSOP, became the first person to have