The Chicago White Sox, which managed to lose 121 games this season.
They had a ways to go to dethrone the Cleveland Spiders as the worst team ever in baseball, but still, being the worst team since the turn of the 20th Century is an impressive feat of awfulness.
There's always next year.
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There's no next year until Jerry Reinsdorf sells them or dies.
"Next Year" as in maybe they can dethrone the Spiders as the worst team in baseball, ever.
1) The White Sox finished with more wins than the 1962 Mets, 41 to 40, and a better winning percentage, .253 to .250.
2) The 1916 Athletics had the worst modern-day winning percentage, at .235, going 36-117. Since the game was whites-only back then, I'd call them the worst "modern" team.
3) The worst winning percentage in a recognized major league is.111, belonging to the 1884 Wilmington Quicksteps of the Union Association.
The UA had a terrible time keeping teams around. Of the eight teams which started its only season, three folded during the year, and a fourth moved in mid-season. The UA recruited Wilmington from the minor leagues to fill in the schedule after Philadelphia folded.
Wilmington went 2-16 in the Union Association before they folded, too.
The St. Louis club, which won the league at 94-19 (.832), was the only survivor of the Union Association. They jumped to the National League, where they finished last in 1885 with a 36-72 record, and a winning percentage of .333.
So, if the UA was so terrible that its champions would only go .333 against real major leaguers, and Wilmington had the worst winning percentage of all time despite playing in that league, I'm calling the Quicksteps as the worst major-league team ever.
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