baseball world series?

Question

why do the americans call it the world series yet its only them that play..??? did the rest of the world not turn up

Answer 1

One baseball myth that just won't die is that the "World Series" was named for the New York World newspaper, which supposedly sponsored the earliest contests. It didn't, and it wasn't.

In fact, the postseason series between the AL and NL champs was originally known as the "Championship of the World" or "World's Championship Series." That was shortened through usage to "World's Series" and finally to "World Series."

This usage can be traced through the annual baseball guides. Spalding's Base Ball Guide for 1887 reported the results of the 1886 postseason series between Chicago, champions of the National League, and St. Louis, champions of the American Association, under the heading "The World's Championship." As the editor noted, the two leagues "both entitle their championship contests each season as those for the base ball championship of the United States," so a more grandiose name was required to describe the postseason showdown between the two "champions of the United States."

But the Spalding Guide -- which, after all, was published by one of the world's largest sporting goods companies, with a vested interest in bringing baseball to other lands -- had grander ambitions. By 1890, the Spalding Guide was explaining that "[t]he base ball championship of the United States necessarily includes that of the entire world, though the time will come when Australia will step in as a rival, and after that country will come Great Britain; but all that is for the future."

This didn't happen, but the name "World's Championship Series" stuck. Reporting on the first modern postseason series, the Red Sox-Pirates battle of 1903, the 1904 Reach Guide called it the "World's Championship Series." By 1912, Reach's headline spoke of the "World's Series," while editor Francis Richter's text still referred to the "World's Championship Series." The Reach Guide switched from "World's Series" to "World Series" in 1931, retaining the modern usage through its merger with the Spalding Guide and through its final issue in 1941. The separately-edited Spalding Guide used "World's Series" through 1916, switching to "World Series" in the 1917 edition.

The Spalding-Reach Guide was replaced as Major League Baseball's semi-official annual by the Sporting News Guide, first published in 1942. The Sporting News Guide used "World's Series" from 1942 through 1963, changing to "World Series" in the 1964 edition.

Moreover, the New York World never claimed any connection with postseason baseball. The World was a tabloid much given to flamboyant self-promotion. If it had been involved in any way with sponsoring a championship series, the fact would have been emblazoned across its sports pages for months. I reviewed every issue of the World for the months leading up to the 1903 and 1905 World's Championship Series -- there's not a word suggesting any link between the paper and the series.

Answer 2

Because, as numerous academic searches have shown, the original championship series between the winners of the American and National Leagues was sponsored by a New York newspaper called "The World", and the name stuck.

If you're trying to say that only Americans play baseball, then you're very, very wrong. Baseball in played and is growing in popularity in the US, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Columbia, Nicaragua, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Aruba, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, South Africa, Italy and the Netherlands. That list is just off the top of my head.

Many of these countries did show up for the World Baseball Classic, played in March 2006, and won by Japan. The US team didn't make it to the final game, and in fact, barely made it out of the first round. And for the past ten months, the baseball world has distinguished between the World champions (Japan) and the World Series champions (currently, the St Louis Cardinals).

Your "facts" are wrong.

Answer 3

4 members of the World Series champions were not born in the United States.
Juan Encarnación- Dominican Republic
Yadier Molina- Puerto Rico
Albert Pujols- Dominican Republic
So Taguchi- Japan
Just another World Series team with players from all around the world. That is why they call it the World Series.

Answer 4

Americans? Have you heard of the Toronto Blue Jays? They have won the world series back to back in the early 90's. So Americans and Canadians both play.

Answer 5

Because we say so! Live with it and deal with it. The rest of the world does and so will you.

Answer 6

it was originally called the world series of baseball but it was shortened to the world series
and it has nothing to do w/the new york world

Answer 7

Canadians are Americans, too.

Answer 8

It's just a name like super bowl, it's not played in a bowl, or for one, lol so it's a name.

Answer 9

as it should be the rest of the world watches in awe

Answer 10

most of the players come from different countries, its not just americans...