Congratulations to the Texas Rangers, winners of the 2023 World Series, winning the Dallas-Fort Worth "Metroplex" its 1st World Championship of baseball, in their 52nd season.
This leaves only 5 current Major League Baseball teams without a title: The San Diego Padres, who've played since 1969; the Milwaukee Brewers, who've also played since 1969, that 1st year as the Seattle Pilots, and then 1970 onward as the Brewers; the Seattle Mariners, who haven't even won a Pennant since they began play in 1977; the Colorado Rockies, who began play in 1993; and the Tampa Bay Rays, who began play in 1998.
The Padres have won Pennants in 1984 and 1998, the Brewers in 1982, the Rockies in 2007, and the Rays in 2008 and 2020.
Nine cities/metropolitan areas have won the World Series, the NFL Championship, the NBA Championship and the Stanley Cup. Here they are, each with the first time they won each (but not necessarily the only time):
1. New York: 1905 MLB with the baseball Giants, 1927 NFL with the football Giants, 1928 NHL with the Rangers, 1970 NBA with the Knicks.
2. Philadelphia: 1910 MLB with the Athletics, 1926 NFL with the Frankford Yellow Jackets, 1947 NBA with the Warriors, 1974 NHL with the Flyers.
3. Detroit: 1935 MLB with the Tigers, 1935 NFL with the Lions, 1936 NHL with the Red Wings, 1989 NBA with the Pistons.
4. Chicago: 1906 MLB with the White Sox, 1921 NFL with the Bears, 1934 NHL with the Blackhawks, 1991 NBA with the Bulls.
5. Boston: 1903 MLB with the Red Sox, 1929 NHL with the Bruins, 1957 NBA with the Celtics, 2002 (2001 season) NFL with the New England Patriots.
6. Los Angeles: 1951 NFL with the Rams, 1959 MLB with the Dodgers, 1972 NBA with the Lakers, 2007 NHL with the Anaheim Ducks. If you don't count Anaheim, then they completed the circuit in 2014 with the Los Angeles Kings.
7. Washington, D.C.: 1924 MLB with the Senators, 1937 NFL with the Redskins (Commanders), 1978 NBA with the Bullets (now the Wizards), 2018 NHL with the Capitals.
8. St. Louis: 1926 MLB with the Cardinals, 1958 NBA with the Hawks, 2000 (1999 season) NFL with the Rams, 2019 NHL with the Blues.
9. Dallas: 1972 (1971 season) NFL with the Cowboys, 1999 NHL with the Stars, 2011 NBA with the Mavericks, and, tonight, 2023 MLB with the Texas Rangers.
Some other cities have come close:
* San Francisco, Miami, Baltimore and Milwaukee/Green Bay are missing the Stanley Cup. Baltimore and Milwaukee have never had an NHL team.
* Seattle and Denver are missing the World Series. Yes, Seattle has not only won the Stanley Cup, but was the 1st American city to do so, with the 1917 Seattle Metropolitans.
* Pittsburgh hasn't had an NBA team since 1947, the league's 1st season, although they won the ABA Championship in 1968.
* Cleveland hasn't had an NHL team since 1978.
* Houston has won the World Series and the NBA title; plus 2 AFL titles, but never a Super Bowl; and 2 WHA titles, but they've never had an NHL team.
If you extend it to Major League Soccer (1996-present), and its predecessor, the North American Soccer League (1967-84), which teams have done all 5? 6 cities have done it:
1. New York, finishing the job with the 1972 Cosmos.
2. Philadelphia, in 1974, having done it with the 1973 Atoms.
3. Chicago, in 1991, having done it with the 1981 Sting.
4. Los Angeles, in 2007, having done it with the 1967 Wolves.
5. Washington, in 2018, having done it with D.C. United in 1996.
6. Dallas, just now, having done it with the 1971 Tornados.
So, even extending it that far, congratulations to Dallas.
Boston has not done it: The New England Revolution are 0-5 in MLS Cup Finals, and no New England team won the NASL's "Soccer Bowl," either.
You want to add the WNBA? There's only 3: The Los Angeles Sparks won in 2001, meaning they did them all by 2007; the Washington Mystics in 2019; and the Chicago Sky in 2021. The New York Liberty are 0-5 in WNBA Finals, the Dallas Wings have never reached the Finals, and Philadelphia don't have a WNBA team.
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