I figured Boston had to be one of them, which required stretching the definition of a city to include the Patriots. I didn’t spend enough time to check on Philadelphia and don’t know how long it would take me, if ever to get to St. Louis.
Yeah, it’s St. Louis and Boston/“New England.” Three of those meetings have happened multiple times, too, with each city winning at least once.
I’m too lazy to look this up. Can you provide the years/results, please?
Sure.
Cardinals/Red Sox 1946, 1967, 2004, 2013 (STL won the first two)
Hawks/Celtics 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961 (STL won 1958)
Blues/Bruins 1970, 2019 (STL won 2019)
Rams/Patriots 2002 (NE won)
Thanks!
I do not know the answer to this, but it seems like it would be an interesting sports trivia question.
For each league, what is the poorest W/L record during the regular season where the team went on to win the championship?
The answer for MLB is easy because it was recent. The 2006 St. Louis Cardinals finished the season with a record of 83 - 78, and defeated the Tigers in the WS in five games.
The 2011 NY Giants were 9-7
In the NFL the Giants were one of three teams that made it to the Superbowl with 9-7 regular season records, and I believe the only one that won the Superbowl.
1978 Washington Bullets were 44-38.
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The 1938 Blackhawks were 14-25-9
Heh, a poor regular season is fine in hockey, just so you make the playoffs.
Totally. I knew the worst of the worst would be an ice hockey team.
Although you are correct, in 1987 the Twins won the World Series after topping their division with just 85 wins.
In 1988, they won more games (91) but missed the playoffs.
Yeah. I’m not sure what the point of the NHL regular season. It’s like the pre-season football games before the real season starts in the play-offs. Basketball is not much different.
Basketball is worse. In the NHL half the teams 16/32 get to the playoffs. In the NBA 20/30 teams get to the post-season, though they don’t call the playing round that eliminates 2 in each division. Still even by their terminology, 16/30 teams make it to the playoffs.
Now it is. However, when the NHL adopted the 16-team playoff, there were only 21 teams in the entire league.
What MLB player had the most home runs against one particular MLB pitcher?
Duke Snider hit 19 home runs off of Robin Roberts
I seem to remember the Steelers also making the super bowl and winning with a 9-7 record (2008-2009).
Wasn’t that a win against the Cardinals who had a 9-7 regular season record?