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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 American Legion first sponsored a baseball league in 1925. In the first American Legion Baseball World Series, Yonkers, New York, Post 321 beat a team from Pocatello, Idaho, in Philadelphia in 1926. However, the inaugural season was expensive for the American Legion due to travel costs, and the subsequent season was cancelled.
The Hudson Post 100 American Legion baseball team is making its first appearance in the World Series in North Carolina. Keep track of all the action.
Fargo Post 2 (49-9) is the 2019 runner up, returning to the World Series for the first time since then. The team lost its Central Plains regional opener then rallied with five straight victories.
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The 19th-century competitions are, however, not officially recognized as part of World Series history by Major League Baseball, as it considers 19th-century baseball to be a prologue to the modern baseball era. [9] As late as approximately 1960, some sources treated the 19th-century Series on an equal basis with the post-19th-century series. [10]
This was the first World Series since 1968 to not feature a team from New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, or California. This was the first time the World Series was played in the state of Wisconsin since 1958, when the then-Milwaukee Braves, the defending World Series champions, were defeated by the New York Yankees in seven games. It was ...
Following a 0-for-11 start in the first two games of the World Series, Eckstein went 8-for-22 with four RBI and scored three runs in the series, including going 4-for-5 with three doubles in Game 4. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The World Series victory with the Cardinals made Eckstein one of few [ quantify ] starting shortstops who have won a World Series in ...