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Arizona Diamondbacks
The
Arizona Diamondbacks
(often shortened as the
D-backs
) are an American
professional baseball
franchise based in
Phoenix, Arizona
. The club competes in
Major League Baseball
(MLB) as a member of the
National League
(NL)
West
division. Since the team's inception in 1998, the franchise has played home games at
Chase Field
, formerly known as Bank One Ballpark. The
ballpark
was renamed in 2005, as a result of
Bank One Corporation
's merger with
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
The Diamondbacks have won one
World Series
championship (in
2001
), becoming the fastest
expansion team
in the Major Leagues to win a championship, doing it in only the fourth season since
the franchise's inception
in the
1998 Major League Baseball season
.
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