Okay, so, the other day I was watching a baseball game, and it got me thinking – how many times has a team actually swept the World Series? I mean, a clean sweep, winning four games straight without losing a single one. Sounds pretty tough, right?

The Ultimate List: Teams That Have Swept the World Series.

So, I got curious and decided to dig into it. I started by just, you know, hitting up Google. It took me several different attempts to get the right results from my searches, because I didn’t know some words before.

It turns out, this has happened way more often than I thought! It has happened 21 times in the whole history of the World Series! Can you believe it? 21 times a team has just dominated and taken it all without dropping a game.

I spent a good chunk of time just reading through different articles and trying to piece it all together. I felt like a real sports historian for a bit there. After looking through things, I found out that the first time it ever happened was way back in 1907. It was the Chicago Cubs against the Detroit Tigers, and the Cubs took it 4-0. Although I found out that there was one game that ended in a tie, so they actually played five games. Still counts as a sweep, though!

As I kept digging, I found out that the American League has the majority of these sweeps. They’ve done it 13 times! And get this – the last time it happened was in 2012, so it’s been a while since we’ve seen a World Series sweep.

I even made a little list for myself to keep track of it all, real organized like.

The Ultimate List: Teams That Have Swept the World Series.
  • Total number of World Series sweeps: 21
  • The first sweep: 1907, Chicago Cubs over Detroit Tigers
  • Number of sweeps by the American League: 13
  • Last sweep: 2012

Result

And there you have it. It was a fun little research project, and now I’ve got some cool trivia to share with my buddies during the next game. It is so interesting that 21 teams managed to do it over the years, and I never thought about it before.

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