Region 5 is here
Part 1 explains all of this.
6. 2016 World Champion Chicago Cubs
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123. 1955 AL Champion New York Yankees
-Curse breaking Cubs against a Yankee team with 23 year old Mickey Mantle with his 180 OPS+
59. 1968 World Champion Detroit Tigers
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70. 1998 NL East Champion Atlanta Braves
-Denny McLain's 31-6 with an ERA under 2; he'll be matched up in game 1 with Greg Maddux and his 2.22 ERA.
27. 1919 World Champion Cincinnati Reds
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102. 1945 NL Champion Chicago Cubs
-The Reds team that beat the Black Sox meets a WWII era Cubs squad without a Hall of Famer.
38. 2017 AL Central Champion Cleveland Indians
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91. 1957 AL Champion New York Yankees
-The Tribe won 102 and then got bounced by the Yankees in the ALDS; 25 year old Mickey Mantle had a near criminal 221 OPS+ for New York
11. 1911 World Champion Philadelphia A's
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118. 1917 NL Champion New York Giants
-They could have hardly known that before the end of the century the A's and Giants would be meeting as Northern California teams in a World Series halted by a massive earthquake.
54. 1969 AL Champion Baltimore Orioles
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75. 1949 World Champion New York Yankees
-109 wins but Baltimore dropped the World Series to the Amazin' New York Mets and they take on another Joe DiMaggio Yankee team.
22. 1976 World Champion Cincinnati Reds
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107. 1906 World Champion Chicago White Sox
-We've seen the '75 Reds, here's the sequel; all 5 members of the White Sox rotation have ERAs below 2.40
43. 1928 World Champion New York Yankees
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86. 1974 NL Champion Los Angeles Dodgers
-Yankee team #24 is the follow up to the legendary '27 Bombers; Don Sutton's the only Hall of Famer on this Dodger squad that won multiple pennants.
