It’s the ultimate dream of every fan of a team sport: your favourite club takes home the league’s championship at the end of a season.
But, let’s face it: if you were a St. Louis Browns fan in the first half of the 20th century, you had about a 99% chance of your team finishing about 88 games out of first place while the New York Yankees took home another World Series trophy. (The Browns appeared in exactly one World Series, in the middle of World War II, moved to Baltimore about a decade later, and have found more success in Maryland.