What if someone were to ask you who is the greatest baseball team of all time; what would your response be? Most commonly people answer with teams like the 1927 New York Yankees, 1976 Cincinnati Reds, 1970 Baltimore Orioles, and 1986 New York Mets. All of those teams not only won a World Series but had notable players and were extremely dominant teams. But what about the 1929 Philadelphia Athletics? In this series we will look in to the question of who is the greatest team of all time in comparison to the ’29 Athletics.
Out of those 4 previously mentioned teams the name we most commonly hear first in that conversation of the greatest baseball teams of all time is the 1927 New York Yankees.