why is the world series baseball call the world .If the rest of the world don't take part?

Question

It's always puzzled me .No rude reply please .I'm not having a go at Americans or America .Just always wanted to know

Answer 1

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.

The 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".

The 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.

By 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.

Early 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.

Answer 2

As a Brit living in the USA I always tease my husband (American) about that and The Superbowl (American Football) which is also classed as a world event. I love both games, but they are not truely world championships.
Maybe if the rest of the world get that consistently good at those sports, we can provide a challenge.

Answer 3

a million. The call of the MLB annual championship is the international sequence. Cool call, huh? manage it. 2. no one calls football gridiron till they call football what we call football. 3. What truly burns you is that the vast majority of yankee activities followers do not provide a rat's rump about football. truly, we do not. 4. Baseball is performed in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Canada, united states, Mexico, Panama, Honduras, Belize, Venezuela, Colombia, Aruba, Curacao, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, between others. 5. do not even initiate about basketball. That sport, began in Springfield, Massachusetts, is performed throughout the time of the international. 6. football is boring.

Answer 4

It's because the competition is named afer a magazine that started it called The World - hence world series.

Answer 5

Tradition. When it started, baseball was only played in America.

Answer 6

Coz Yanks can't handle getting threr @ss kicked which is a bit of a surprise.

Answer 7

American arrogance...and yes, I am American.

Although these days Canada does have a chance to participate.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

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