What's going on here? Part I explains it all.
Region 2
2. 1927 World Champion New York Yankees
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127. 1967 World Champion St Louis Cardinals
Ruth/Gehrig and the 110 win Yankees meet a Cardinal club with 4 Hall of Famers of their own.
63. 1948 World Champion Cleveland Indians
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66. 1954 World Champion New York Giants
Player/manager Lou Boudreau's slashline, .355/.453/.534. His Indians face the Giants team that upset Cleveland in the '54 Series.
31. 1912 World Champion Boston Red Sox
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98. 2017 NL Champion Los Angeles Dodgers
24 year old Tris Speaker paces the Red Sox against the first team of the most recently completed decade we've seen so far, the '17 Dodgers.
34. 1952 World Champion New York Yankees
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95. 1971 World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates
20 year old Mickey Mantle brings his Yankees into action against Stargell/Clemente and the '71 Pirates.
15. 1937 World Champion New York Yankees
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114. 1928 Philadelphia Athletics
Gehrig's slashline in '37: .351/.473/.643. He and DiMaggio face the second team in the field so far not to see the postseason, the 98 win second place A's.
50. 1912 NL Champion New York Giants
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79. 1993 NL West Champion Atlanta Braves
This is the first matchup we've seen so far that doesn't include a World Series Champion; the Giants lost to that Red Sox team that's also in this region and the Braves (after winning the last real pennant race against the Giants) lost the NLCS to the Phillies.
18.1944 World Champion St Louis Cardinals
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111. 1911 World Champion Boston Braves
23 year old Stan Musial brings his Cardinal squad into battle against the Braves with Bill James and his 1.90 ERA.
47. 1956 World Champion New York Yankees
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82. 2019 World Champion Washington Nationals
24 year old Mickey Mantle with a slugging % over .700 leads New York against (at the time of this writing) the most recent WS Champions - the 2019 Nats.
