A Listing of the Best Teams Known to Baseball

1927 Yankees: The Best Ever?

It's only fitting that a franchise that produced a quarter of baseball's World Champions in a century would hold the honor for what is considered to be one of the greatest single teams of all time.

The 1927 Yankees would win 110 games and lose 44. It would be an American League record that would stand for 27 seasons and it earned the team the nickname "Murderer's Row." The question to ask, however, is how good was this team?

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Team Profiles

1889 Cleveland Spiders -- One of the worst ever
1906 Chicago Cubs -- Great team lost in series
1915 Chicago Whales -- Federal League stars
1919 Chicago White Sox -- Controversial team
1921 Chicago White Sox -- The fall of a dynasty
1927 New York Yankees -- One of best ever
1930 St. Louis Cardinals -- Team like no other
1936 New York Yankees -- Possibly the greatest
1938 Homestead Grays -- Negro League dynasty
1939 New York Yankees -- Win without Ruth
1951 New York Giants -- A famous finish
1960 Pittsburgh Pirates -- Unlikely Winners
1961 New York Yankees -- Maris & Mantle
1966 Baltimore Orioles -- A trade and a title
1969 New York Mets -- An amazing team
1971 Pittsburgh Pirates -- Showcasing Clemente
1976 Cincinnati Reds -- Big Red Machine
1979 Pittsburgh Pirates -- We are Fam-i-lee!
1991 Atlanta Braves -- From worst to first