four in the 1910s, note They played in and won five of the first fifteen Series ever played. They've proven immensely successful early in centuries, winning one World Series in the 1900s, note The first ever modern World Series in 1903. The Boston Red Sox are often considered by their fans - beg your pardon, Red Sox Nation - to be La RĂ©sistance to the Yankees' Evil Empire (a view not much shared by fans of other teams these days, given that they have effectively acted exactly like the Yankees since 2004).Ironically, from 1920 to 1953, the Browns owned Sportsman's Park, and the Cardinals were their tenants, but the Cards' vastly greater popularity led to the Browns' eventual departure. Louis, and instead leave it to the Cardinals to honor the "Brownies".
The Browns years are something of an Old Shame for Baltimore, as the Orioles do not recognize or commemorate any of their statistics or records from their time in St.
During this era the Browns (owned at the time by the highly eccentric Bill Veeck) fielded the shortest player in baseball history, 3'7" midget Eddie Gaedel, who took one at-bat as a publicity stunt (and Veeck only got away with it by filing Gaedel's contract with the AL offices at the very end of the work week, ensuring it would get a quick approval and not be scrutinized until the following Monday the league subsequently revised its rules to ensure all contracts are reviewed by the Commissioner before a player is eligible to take the field).
Louis, and even then were mostly associated with losing, though they did manage a single World Series appearance in 1944 where they lost to in-town rivals the St. Louis Browns note they were the Milwaukee Brewers in the AL's inaugural season, but a last-place finish prompted a move to St.