Championship context
There are four major team sports leagues in North America. In the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, and the National Hockey League (along with its forerunner, the National Hockey Association), the following are teams that have won championships in their respective sport since the last time the Chicago Cubs won the baseball World Series in 1908. What makes this particular list of championship teams unique is that, unlike the Cubs, league charters prohibit these teams from winning as they are each defunct.Note: The list could be longer. Left out are the champions of defunct leagues that were absorbed by the remaining: the American Football League, the American Basketball Association, the Western Hockey League, and baseball’s Negro Leagues and Federal League. I also did not include teams that have gone through name changes if they continue to play today in the city of their championship(s)...
Akron Pros (NFL)- 1920
Baltimore Bullets (NBA)- 1948
Baltimore Colts (NFL)-1958, 1959, 1970
Boston Braves (MLB)- 1914
Brooklyn Dodgers (MLB)- 1955
Canton Bulldogs (NFL)- 1922, 1923
Chicago Cardinals (NFL)- 1925, 1947
Cleveland Bulldogs (NFL)- 1924
Cleveland Rams (NFL)- 1945
Frankford Yellow Jackets (NFL)- 1926
Los Angeles Raiders (NFL)- 1983
Los Angeles Rams (NFL)- 1951
Milwaukee Braves (MLB)- 1957
Minneapolis Lakers (NBA)- 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954
Montreal Maroons (NHL)- 1926, 1935
Montreal Wanderers (NHA)- 1910
New York Giants (MLB)- 1921, 1922, 1933, 1954
Ottawa Hockey Club (NHA)- 1911
Ottawa Senators (original) (NHL)- 1915, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1927
Philadelphia Athletics (MLB)- 1910, 1911, 1913, 1929, 1930
Philadelphia Warriors (NBA)- 1947, 1956
Providence Steam Roller (NFL)- 1928
Quebec Bulldogs (NHA)- 1912, 1913
Rochester Royals (NBA)- 1951
St. Louis Hawks (NBA)- 1958
Seattle Supersonics (NBA)- 1979
Syracuse Nationals (NBA)- 1955
Toronto Hockey Club (NHA)- 1914
Washington Senators (MLB)- 1924
posted by CM @ 6:35 PM
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That was a great Wanderers team.
Moose Johnson to Hod Stuart to Riley Hern was like their Tinker to Evers to Chance.
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