Key
| Year | Links to the corresponding "year in baseball" (1876–1900) or "Major League Baseball season" (1901–present) article |
| Team | Links to the corresponding season in which each team played |
| Series | Links to the corresponding "National League Championship Series" article |
| Record | Regular season win–loss record |
| GA | Games ahead of the second-place team (pre-NLCS era) |
| WW | Wins by the winning team (NLCS era) |
| LW | Wins by the losing team (NLCS era) |
| Ref | Reference |
| T | Won Temple Cup (1894–1897) |
| C-T | Won Chronicle-Telegraph Cup (1900) |
| * | Won World Series (modern era only; 1903–present) |
| E | National League East division member (1969–present) |
| C | National League Central division member (1995–present) |
| W | National League West division member (1969–present) |
| † | Wild card team (1995–present) |
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