The 1930 Philadelphia Athletics won 102 games, and the second of three consecutive American League pennants, but this was probably the least dominant of those teams; they may not have even been the best club in the AL that season, as Washington actually had a better Pythagorean record despite finishing eight games back. They still had peak Cochrane (137 wRC+), Simmons (171 wRC+) and Foxx (157 wRC+) in the middle of the lineup, and Lefty Grove (185 ERA+) had one of his greatest seasons, but the supporting cast wasn't quite as good in 1930; Grove, especially, was left on an island when the pitching staff got much less quality from George Earnshaw and Rube Walberg.
The 1977 Philadelphia Phillies won 101 games, but were denied the franchise's first trip to the World Series in almost thirty years by the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series. Those 101 wins were a franchise co-record until 2011 and, while the the 1976 team might have been a little better, this was still one of the all-time great Phillie teams. They had the best offense in the NL that year behind Mike Schmidt (155 wRC+) and Greg Luzinski (157 wRC+), and big platoon seasons from Bake McBride (152 wRC+) and Richie Hebner (130 wRC+), but the pitching relied on Steve Carlton (153 ERA+) and a deep, effective bullpen that pitched almost 400 innings of sub-3 ERA baseball while bailing out the rest of a mediocre starting rotation.
So What If these two clubs met for Philadelphia bragging rights? Would the A's roll behind Grove and their Hall of Fame hitters, or would the Phillies use the long ball and their pen to weather the storm . . .