World series?

Question

why is it called the world series as only America and Canada compeete in it ??????? go fig!

A little history Lesson here: Baseball as the Americans now call is originaly from an ENGLISH game called ROUNDERS many many years ago!!!!!

Answer 1

hey! that's true

Answer 2

Baseball overcame its roots as "rounders." Abner Doubleday wrote down official rules for a game, and dubbed it baseball in 1839. The earliest nationalized rules for rounders came about in 1884 (please note that is 45 years later) by the GAA in Ireland (guess the ENGLISH couldn't get together and make a set of rules). Also, the US never monopolized the game, it just caught on fastest in North America. It has grown extremely popular in Asia and Central and South America. It was an Olympic sport, starting as an exhibition sport in LA in 1984, and lasted until the last games, but will likely be back in 2012. Cricket was in the games in 1900, but is not on the horizon, and rounders, well, no one outside the UK even plays that anymore. People from all over the world play baseball, which is what caused formation of the World Baseball Classic (WBC). China, Chinese Taipei, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Canada, South Africa, Netherlands, Panama, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Australia, Italy, Domincan Republic, and Venezuela all joined the US in the WBC for a total of 16 countries. The US has still not fully embraced this venue, and some of its best ball players opted not to play.

By the way, since the inception of the International Cricket Cup in 1975, England has won what appears to be zero championships in the eight tournaments played. Australia, India, West Indies, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka have all won, but not England. So I don't even want to hear about how the US lost the ONE WBC played.

Go USA, Go baseball, Go Dodgers!

Answer 3

Does anyone else feel like they see this question six of seven times a day??

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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 4

Beacause basically if you are any good at the game you come to America because were a freaking sweet with baseball, "americas favorite pass time"? ring any bells. Well anyways, all the good players come her for a chance at the major leagues. So bottom line thebest of the world are here, hence, the world series.

Answer 5

Personally, I've answered this question two or three times, from two or three different people, just in that last couple of days.

Changing the wording of a question doesn't change the question itself. And it certainly doesn't change the answers.

Doesn't anyone ever search previous questions and answers? It's so much easier, ergonomically, for someone to do this than to keep having people answer the same thing, over and over and over, ad infinitum.

Answer 6

When the first world series was held they realized that no other countries had a league. So they declared the winner to be the best team in the world. Pretty simple.

Answer 7

In ten years just about every major country will have had a player play in the world series

Answer 8

It's called the World Series because it can be seen by TV all over the world!

Answer 9

Exactly! On another note, no MLB team wants to play the Cuban Nationals.

Answer 10

because nobody in their right mind would think any team other than a US team could beat a US team in best of 7 in October!

Answer 11

Yah you're right....people all around the world don't watch the World Series do they??? OH WAIT....YES THEY DO!!