Why is it the MLB World Series Called "The World Series" when its just the United States and 1 Canadian Team?
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Even though MLB only features teams from the US and Canada many of the players are from around the world.  The World Series is a representation of the players, not necessarily the countries.
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While fan interest is often cited as the main reason, there are larger factors:\n\n1) The biggest issue was the inability to fund a new stadium Canadian law now prohibits subsidizing of professional sports facilities,\n\n2) The inability to gain revenues through a local broadcast deal for both radio and television. No revenue stream is more critical in MLB.\n\n3) International exchange rate. MLB players are paid in USD. If your revenues are coming in as Canadian dollars, you still have to pay your players in US dollars. This created issues for both the Expos and Blue Jays when the Canadian dollar was depressed in the late '90s.\n\n4) And yes, fan apathy.\n\nYou can follow up on this issue, if you like, with me on Baseball Prospectus Weds. the 21st at 2pm EST as I'll be conducting a chat on the business of baseball then.\n\n--Maury
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There were rumors that the NY World newspaper back in the 1800s coined it as thus. \n\nhttp://www.snopes.com/business/names/worldseries.asp\n\nIt just morphed into that from the start. I wouldn't worry about it as back in the 1940s even when Wolves beat the touring Moscow Dynamo, the headlines declared that team soccer champions of the world. It's just hyperbole that is based in a pre-Internet past where the world was something that existed mainly on any nation's shores and no one grasped the global nature of sports yet. \n\nThe winner of the World Series would be the de facto best club team in baseball in most fans' opinion. Whenever MLB All-Star teams or even club teams tour Japan, they win the series (only lost one series I believe) and these are exhibition series not really taken seriously by MLBers.
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Only the US and possibly Canada interms of cities that might be involved but the players are quite often from all over the world.\n\nFor example last years world series champs Chicago Whitesox have players&#92;coaches from 7 different countries.
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Um, last time I checked...  The world cup was for soccer.  And I don't think that the Red Sox play soccer.  If you mean the world series...  Then problably.  But what do I know?  I hate baseball.  It's America's slowest sport, also known as the only sport you can play in a coma.
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Who gives a flying crap who wins the Conn smythe. As for giving Canadians a bad name Canada is not really a country its a holding station for American goods. I was born in Canada but I'm sorry Canada is the U.S poor cousin. I don't care if the canes win 3/4 or the team is from Canada even ward there goalie. Hockey is all Canada has left that and Tim Horton's. I don't like to see hockey in the hands of people that care nothing for it. and those are rednecks. F Uck em all.
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Good question. It probably should be called the MLB Championships, but that will never happen!
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It's a little hard to judge that.  Many teams come from different regions of countries, and usually it's the country, not the particular team, that receives the credit for winning.  The United States has won 26 titles, Chinese Tapei 17, and Japan 4.  No SPECIFIC team has won it more than twice.
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The World Series is actually so called because the first such event was sponsored by a news paper called the WORLD.  The name stuck.\n\nIt is a misconseption that the winner of the World Series is the World's Champion.
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The World Series is the only true world-sporting event, where the best team plays in the best league with the best players.  Unlike the European Football leagues, they have a league for each country, and elite teams in it so since they don’t all play against each other you may never actually know who the best team is.  In baseball, the cream raises to the top so to speak and the best team wins.  Because MLB will and does find the best players from around the world and have them play in the league, below is a list of some countries that have had players play in the World Series.  \n\n\nAruba, Austria, Australia, Bahamas, Colombia, Cuba, Curacao, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Panama, Poland, Russia, Scotland, South Korea, South Vietnam, Spain, Sweden,  Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine, Virgin Island, Venezuela, and Wales just to name a few
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It was  due to the fact that besides USA, and a few other countries, baseball is not played in any other countries. Furthermore, baseball was constantley one of the poorest attended sports when it came to the Olympics, Equestraian got more of an audiance than baseball.
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Because Lamar Hunt(owner of the Kansas City Chiefs) saw his daughter playing with a high bounce ball as we call them. He asked her what is was called. She said it was a superball, yeah another name for the same thing. He liked the name and suggested naming the NFL Championship game the Super Bowl. I think though that you are mistaken with the World Series of Baseball when only the U.S. and Canada have teams that can play in it. You are now just getting picky and silly. Super Bowl just a refrence to importance and how great it is not to country.
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Yeah, it would be refreshing to see the U.S. play The Ivory Coast , or Poland in baseball. You want to watch the "WORLD SERIES", something that means something, wait till the Little Leaguers square off. Then you will see base played like it was meant to be played....between players who play for the fun of it.
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The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada, the culmination of the sport's postseason each October. It is played between the pennant winner of the American League and the pennant winner of the National League. The Series winner is determined through a best-of-seven playoff (except in 1903, 1919, 1920 and 1921 when the winner was determined through a best-of-nine playoff) and is awarded the World Series Trophy, as well as World Series rings. Baseball has employed various championship formulas since the 1850s. The modern World Series has been an annual event since 1903, with the exceptions of 1904 and 1994.\n\nThe New York Yankees have the most World Series titles, with 26 championships through the 2005 season. Eight teams, all established since 1961, have never won a World Series title: the Texas Rangers, Houston Astros, San Diego Padres, Washington Nationals (formerly the Montreal Expos from 1969 to 2004), Milwaukee Brewers, Seattle Mariners, Colorado Rockies, and Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Of those eight teams, only three have appeared in the Series: Milwaukee, San Diego, and Houston. The Chicago Cubs have gone the longest between titles, having last won the World Series in 1908.\nContents\n[hide]\n\n    * 1 Introduction\n    * 2 Precursors to the World Series (1857-1901)\n    * 3 The modern World Series (1903-present)\n          o 3.1 The first attempt\n          o 3.2 The boycott of 1904\n          o 3.3 Highlights and lowlights\n          o 3.4 List of modern World Series\n    * 4 World Series Appearances\n    * 5 Down to the wire\n    * 6 Deficits overcome\n    * 7 Trivia\n    * 8 Image gallery\n    * 9 References\n    * 10 See also\n\n[edit]\n\nIntroduction\n\nThe first two games of the series are played in the home ballpark of the team awarded home-field advantage; the next three are in the other team's ballpark, and the final two, if necessary, are back in the first team's ballpark. That has been the pattern since 1924, with the exception of World War II, when travel restrictions were in place. Until 2003, the team given the home-field advantage was switched every year between the American League and the National League. Starting with the 2003 World Series, the league that wins the mid-season All-Star Game has been awarded home-field advantage.\n\nSince 1986, the designated hitter rule has been applied based on the rules normally in effect at the home ballpark. In an American League ballpark, both teams use a designated hitter to hit for the pitcher. In a National League ballpark, both team's pitchers must hit. From 1975 through 1985, the designated hitter was used for all games in even-numbered years, and was not used in any games in odd-numbered years. The designated hitter was not used at all prior to the 1975 Series, although the DH rule had been adopted by the AL in 1973.\n\nA portion of the gate receipts from the World Series — and, from 1969 onward, the other rounds of postseason play preceding it — is used to fund a Players' Pool, from which descending shares are distributed to the World Series winner, the World Series loser, all the other teams qualifying for the playoffs which did not reach the World Series, and certain other teams which did not qualify for the playoffs, the criteria for the latter changing at various times. Prior to 1969, teams finishing in the first division, or top half of the leagues' standings, received such shares; today, only the teams finishing in second place in their division but not earning a wild card receive them, because there are more divisions with each having fewer teams. The shares for the actual participants are limited to the gate receipts of the minimum number of games necessary to play the series. That rule has been in place from the beginning, to keep the games "honest".\n\nThe "World" appellation has stuck despite the fact that only teams in the two major leagues, which
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The title of this championship is confusing to some international readers, because the World Series is confined to the champions of two baseball leagues that currently operate only in the United States and Canada.\n\nThe explanation is that when the term "World's Championship Series" was first used in the 1880s, baseball was almost exclusively confined to North America, especially at a highly skilled (and paid) level. Thus it was understood that the winner of the major league championship was the best baseball team in the world. The title of this event was soon shortened to "World's Series" and later to "World Series".\n\nThe United States continued to be the zenith of professional baseball some decades into the 20th Century. The first Japanese professional baseball efforts began in 1920. The current Japanese leagues date from the late 1940s. Various Latin American leagues also formed around that time.\n\nBy the 1990s, baseball was played at a highly skilled level in many countries, resulting in a strong international flavor to the Series, as many of the best players from the Pacific Rim, Latin America, the Caribbean, and elsewhere now play on Major League rosters. The notable exception is Cuban nationals, due to the political situation between the USA and Cuba (despite that barrier, over the years a number of Cuba's finest ballplayers have defected to the United States to play in the American professional leagues). Players from the Japanese Leagues also have a more difficult time coming to the Major Leagues because they must first play 10 years in Japan before becoming free agents.\n\nEarly in 2006, Major League Baseball conducted the inaugural World Baseball Classic, to establish a "true" world's championship in the way the term is normally used for other international sports. Teams of professional players from 16 nations participated, and Japan won the first World Baseball Classic championship. Olympic baseball was instituted as a medal sport in 1992, but in 2005 the International Olympic Committee voted to eliminate baseball, and it will be off the Olympic program in 2012.
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The World Series came from the New York World newspaper during the 19th century when Major League Baseball was started, because they owned the rights to it, it was call the New York World Series, then later shorten to the World Series.\n\nTry using another way to put down Americans, 'cause this one seems a little invalid now doesn't it---okay now I'm getting a little arrogant, he he.
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Before the birth of the World Series in 1903, there were other postseason championships that took place as early as 1884. Although they are not officially recognized as part of World Series history, they provide a basis for the establishment of what has become recognized as "The Fall Classic." \n\nFirst World Series Winner: Boston Red Sox 1903:\n1903  Boston Red Sox 5, Pittsburgh 3\n\n8 games\n\nIn 1904 there wasn't a winner, trick question