Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxw.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxw!tommyo From: tommyo@ihuxw.UUCP (Tom O`Connor) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Earliest Clichers and Biggest Leads Message-ID: <952@ihuxw.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 09:33:45 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxw.952 Posted: Fri Aug 3 09:33:45 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 02:46:27 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 25 Somebody asked about this topic a day or so ago, so I dug through the record book to get the following trivia. Earliest date to clinch pennant: AL - 9/4/41 Yankees NL - 9/8/55 Dodgers (the year they FINALLY won it all) Earliest game to clinch pennant: AL - 136 Yankees `41 NL - 137 Giants `04 (the `55 Dodgers did it in 138 games) Earliest date to clinch division: NL - 9/7/75 Reds AL - 9/13/69 Orioles Biggest lead over 2nd place team, pennant NL - 27 1/2 games - Pirates `02 AL - 19 1/2 games - Yankees `36 Biggest lead over 2nd place team, division NL - 20 games - Reds `75 AL - 19 gaems - Orioles `69 For your enjoyment Tom O`Connor