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The All-Time Records of the American Association Playoffs, 1933-1962, Part 1

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Volume 18, Number 2      •     Fall 2022   The American Association Almanac presents the complete records of the American Association playoffs from 1933 to 1962 in Part 1 of Vol. 18, No. 2, Fall 2022. Part 1 covers the records comparing playoff series and games. The project began five years ago to document the playoffs in a comprehensive fashion. The first step provided the basis for this compilation. It involved locating each box score for the games in five-season increments. The details of those games were covered in the Almanac beginning with Vol. 13, No. 2.  As the project wrapped up with the Spring 2022 edition of the Almanac , what remained was a database which included the information from the box scores. That exhaustive database included numerous spreadsheets, but was yet to be fully organized in a way that would allow a full-scale statistical analysis to begin.  In the spring of 2022 that analysis was undertaken. It involved 475 games in 183 series over 29 seasons. This proc