Baseball challenge - Another team with Yankee dominance or Yankees move

Not just 27 world titles, but 40 pennants in 89 years. In fact, 14 in 16 at one stretch. OTL has its share of things that totally dominate, and the Yankees' baseball team is one of them.

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to give another team nearly the same level of dominance. To make it a little easier, we'll go back to 1903, not 1920, and the first World Series; so it's from 1903 the team has to have 40 (or as close as possible) league pennants, and 27 (or as clsoe as possible) World Series wins.

Yes, you can do one or the other, but it's more fun to try both.

Cardinals or Giants might be able to come close, but anyone else will be tough.

So I'm not posting 2 straight baseball ones, & because this might seem the easier one, if you want you can try antoher challenge:

With a POD after 1932 (the last Ruth/Gehrig Series), have the Yankees move from New York while the Dodgers, Giants, or both stay. (Of course, it can be 20+ years in the future that they move, as it was the '50s that numerous ones moved.

I'm taking antoher hiatus for a while with real life stuff, but if i don't make it back for a long while thanks for all the fun.
 
Not sure how to run a simulation of this to see if it's even possible, but for the hell of it, let's suppose that John McGraw got backing from the Giants' owners to thumb his nose at the "gentlemen's agreement", and proceeded to go after the players he targeted in the Negro Leagues. (It should be noted that upon McGraw's death, among his personal papers was a list of Negro League players he coveted for the Giants.)

OK, so now baseball is presented with a fait accompli of integration in the early 1920s--say, 1921. It might be somewhat bumpy at first but McGraw could probably hold together the team through pure force of personality, telling the white members that these guys will make damn sure they win, and will beat the Yankees in the bargain, taking back New York.

I could see a rather quick ripple effect elsewhere: the St. Louis Browns, for example, on the threshold of winning with the lineup pivoting around George Sisler, might well add enough black stars to get over the top, leading to an all-time classic Series confrontation in 1922 with the Giants. Another couple of teams that would be fairly quick to add black talent: the A's (Connie Mack knew how to be thrifty and liked to win) and Clark Griffith (who was so tight that the buffalo on the nickel was constipated); the latter would probably go after black Cuban talent.

Take it from there, if you so choose; those are a few suggestions.
 

Xen

Banned
This isnt too difficult

Babe Ruth is sold by the Baltimore Orioles to the Philadelphia Athletics (as opposed to the Boston Red Sox). The A's remain a dominant team in the 1920s (when historically they bottomed out) and into the 1930's. With Ruth causing games to be sold out day after day, Mack does not have to go on a firesale, and the A's dominate baseball until sometime in the 1950's. The Philadelphia Whiz Kids may even refer to the A's. The Phillies are forced to move, ironically Baltimore is available.

So the A's are baseballs dominant team
 
Mack

This isnt too difficult

Babe Ruth is sold by the Baltimore Orioles to the Philadelphia Athletics (as opposed to the Boston Red Sox). The A's remain a dominant team in the 1920s (when historically they bottomed out) and into the 1930's. With Ruth causing games to be sold out day after day, Mack does not have to go on a firesale, and the A's dominate baseball until sometime in the 1950's. The Philadelphia Whiz Kids may even refer to the A's. The Phillies are forced to move, ironically Baltimore is available.

So the A's are baseballs dominant team

For the A's to stay dominant after Connie Mack's death in 1956, the right owner would need to come in. If that would happen, I definitely see them staying dominant, especially if they can build the same team in the late-60's and 70's that they did in OTL. That team would stay on top longer without Charlie O' Greedy as owner. That would also be the same time that they would move into The Vet with the Eagles.

After their great team declines in the early and mid-80's due to age and free agency, they still rebuild in the late-80's with the same team that they had in Oakland, but they stay on or near the top from that point until today because they aren't in the small market that the A's are in now. They also move into the stadium that the Phils are in today.
 
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