The National League East is one of Major League Baseball's six divisions. Along with the American League Central, it is one of two divisions to have every current member team win at least one World Series title; it is also the only division whose current members have all won the championship while playing there.
After having internal, informal divisions for scheduling purposes during the pre-expansion era, the division was formally created when the National League (NL) (along with the American League) added two expansion teams and divided into two divisions, East and West, effective for the 1969 season. The National League's geographical alignment was rather peculiar as its geographic partitioning was less east–west than north–south. Two teams in the Eastern Time Zone, the Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds, were in the same division as teams on the Pacific coast. This was due to the demands of the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals, who refused to support expansion unless they were promised they would be kept together in the newly created East Division.
