Beyond winning a pennant and World Series, there is no bigger Major League Baseball team goal than getting 100 victories in a season. To dominate on the field day after day, grinding through 100-degree temperatures, and then some on turf, is a testament to talent, endurance, and determination.
Given the difficulty of accomplishing the feat, posting 100 wins on the board should be an automatic postseason berth, but that has not always been the case.
Over the course of 145 seasons, excluding shortened schedules in 1981, 1994, and 2020, the feat has been accomplished a mind blowing 119 times. Since 1876, the Yankees have reached the goal an MLB leading 21 times followed by the Dodgers at 11. Between 1932 and 1942, managing the Yankees, Joe McCarthy was the first…
