World Series: historical stuff presented a little differently.

These two links contain information that is readily available but the presentation here is a bit different and provides some different perspectives.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gWLxFLDXkbCsJiLLbmtXBf-qdScPIhP3USH0jHo510s/pub

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ai3KONa1HbjDcFVhQm53MXZqRThRN0hfMmVramNTTFE&gid=0

The first link is to a document that I created in 2008, so it's a little bit out of date.  Here is the intro and the sections:

This material covers series starting in 1903 between the National League and the American League champions.  The purpose is to present data in a different form, which results in new observations.  In other words to find things hidden in plain sight.

Content:
- Sunday in the park
- Nine game series, eight games and tie
- Home sweet home
- Travel
- Best of Seven WS
- Sweeps
- Regular Season
- Yankees
- Yanks 1960

It also has a link to the second document, which is a spreadsheet with these tabs, which are at the upper left:
- WS Calendar
- No off days
- Best of seven that went seven
- All WS
- Regular season run difference
- Yankees

WS Calendar is very cool.  It is a matrix for all WS dates.  For more recent years you will need to page down to the dates when the WS was played.  To keep it as compact as possible I omitted scores but used the following to indicate the winning team and where the game was played:
- road team is in lower case, home team upper case (all caps)
- road win also has a gray background
- significant event has a yellow background: three homers, perfect game
- final game has bold text

Here is part of the data in the tab for "No off days", something we are not likely to see again:

Year	Winner	Loser
1906	Chicago White Sox	Chicago Cubs
1907	Chicago Cubs	Detroit Tigers
1908	Chicago Cubs	Detroit Tigers
1912	Boston Red Sox	New York Giants
1913	Philadelphia Athletics	New York Giants
1922	New York Giants	New York Yankees
1923	New York Yankees	New York Giants
1924	Washington Senators	New York Giants
1927	New York Yankees	Pittsburgh Pirates
1933	New York Giants	Washington Senators
1934	St. Louis Cardinals	Detroit Tigers
1935	Detroit Tigers	Chicago Cubs
1937	New York Yankees	New York Giants
1940	Cincinnati Reds	Detroit Tigers
1944	St. Louis Cardinals	St. Louis Browns
1947	New York Yankees	Brooklyn Dodgers
1948	Cleveland Indians	Boston Braves
1949	New York Yankees	Brooklyn Dodgers
1950	New York Yankees	Philadelphia Phillies
1952	New York Yankees	Brooklyn Dodgers
1953	New York Yankees	Brooklyn Dodgers
1954	New York Giants	Cleveland Indians
1955	Brooklyn Dodgers	New York Yankees

I think there was a rain out in 1956 between the Yankees and Brooklyn otherwise that would not have had any off days either.  In 1957 the Milwaukee Braves played the Yankees and this started the modern pattern of travel days.

Note: I now refer to this series as the Major Baseball League (MBL) finals.  I use the term MBL to emphasize the fact that the two leagues merged in 1999 and I now refer to them as conferences.  However, for historical continuity I continue to use the old name, World Series.