A guy at work has been annoying everyone at work with this question for over a year now. I have tried everything to find out why and I have no idea, has anyone else got any idea?
2006-06-14 13:23:29 · 16 answers · asked by Michelle 2 in Sports ➔ Baseball
There were rumors that the NY World newspaper back in the 1800s coined it as thus.
http://www.snopes.com/business/names/worldseries.asp
It 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.
The 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.
2006-06-14 13:31:50 · answer #1 · answered by Biff Scooter 1 · 9⤊ 2⤋
The series was started by an american newspaper called "The World" It soon became known as "The World's Series", and eventually "The World Series"
2006-06-14 13:32:23 · answer #2 · answered by Tony T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called the world series coz, a long time ago, the first championships were actually sponsored by a newspaper called the World, hence the World Series.
2006-06-14 13:31:22 · answer #3 · answered by Dreamer363 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we were pretty much the only country playing baseball when the World Series started in 1903.
2006-06-14 13:28:08 · answer #4 · answered by TheOnlyBeldin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably because maybe 10% of the League are actual Americans...the rest are from all over the world!
2006-06-14 13:26:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because most people in the teams that are in the world series are not even americans, most teams these days have dominicans,cubans and puertoricans on their teams, white people better step up or baseball will be taken over by caribean players
2006-06-14 19:15:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It might be because we were the first to play basketball but, I still wouldnt like other countries to be able to play in the world series.
2006-06-14 13:26:52 · answer #7 · answered by videogamer91193 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it really is been said as the international sequence because it really is inception in 1903. manage it. also didnt Toronto win it in 1991? So, it really isn't any longer merely united statesa.. a authentic baseball fan will understand that.
2016-10-14 04:19:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about the Blue Jays??..still play in Canada last I saw (which isnt part of the United States)
2006-06-14 13:30:19 · answer #9 · answered by Dave39A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was sponsor by the World Newsgroup and the name stuck. Lots of things are named after sponsors
2006-06-14 23:13:21 · answer #10 · answered by kingpaulii 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋