Ad
related to: origins of the world series
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
The World Series. Dial Press. The New York Times (1980). The Complete Book of Baseball: A Scrapbook History. Sporting News, Baseball Record Book and Baseball Guide, published annually since ca. 1941. Lansch, Jerry (1991). Glory Fades Away: The Nineteenth Century World Series Rediscovered. Taylor Publishing. ISBN 0-87833-726-1.
Major League Baseball is the oldest of North America's major professional sports organizations, with roots dating back to the 1870s. The final series to determine its champion has been called the "World Series" (originally "World's Championship Series" and then "World's Series") as far back as the National League's contests with the American Association starting at the beginning of the 1880s.
On this day in 1903, the World Series was born. Game 1 of the eight-game series took place at Huffington Avenue Baseball Grounds, as the Boston Americans hosted the Pittsburg Pirates. Pittsburg ...
The Blue Jays won the World Series in 1992 and 1993, the first and still the only club from outside the United States to do so. After the 2004 season, Major League Baseball relocated the Expos to Washington, D.C., where the team is now known as the Nationals. [97] Sadaharu Oh managing the Japan national team in the 2006 World Baseball Classic.
The 2002 World Series, broadcast on Fox, was the first World Series to be broadcast in high-definition. With TBS acquiring rights to air one half of the League Championship Series (the other half going to Fox), 2007 marked the first time that an LCS was broadcast exclusively on cable. It also marked the first time that cable television produced ...
The World Series resumed 11 days later, after extensive repairs to Candlestick Park. Oakland swept the Giants in four games, but it hardly mattered at that point. Neither city would ever be the same.
The 1903 World Series was the first modern World Series to be played in Major League Baseball.It matched the American League (AL) champion Boston Americans against the National League (NL) champion Pittsburgh Pirates [note 2] in a best-of-nine series, with Boston prevailing five games to three, winning the last four.