
The Brooklyn Bridegrooms won the 1889 American Association pennant and were subsequently crushed by the National League champions, the New York Giants in the World Series. The next year, they moved to the National League and won its pennant. However, the American Association winners, the Louisville Colonels played several games with them and there was no tie-breaker in the World Series. Incidentally, in that connection, the Boston Reds won the pennant of the Players League, but nobody paid any attention to them. Both the Players League and the American Association disbanded. However, the Bridegrooms changed their name to the Dodgers and then, moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Their number one rival is still the Giants, who incidentally, moved from New York to San Francisco.