Boston Red Sox world champions..................

[john_smullen]

..................Of America.

[ScubaGirl]

...and canada :p

it was a sweep. i was hoping the rockies would take it, but knew they had no chance. let's go Cubbies next year

[john_smullen]

...and canada :p

it was a sweep. i was hoping the rockies would take it, but knew they had no chance. let's go Cubbies next year

But it is still not the world

[catfish78]

"it was a sweep. i was hoping the rockies would take it, but knew they had no chance. let's go Cubbies next year"

boo Cubs. Go Cards!!!!

Congradulations to the Sox even though I think the DH is a joke.

[mita]

Go Cubs!!! Yeah next year!

[ScubaGirl]

you from chi-town mita?

boo to you catfish

[mita]

no southern IL but love the loveable losers

[Jahnny]

Actually, even a quick glance at "the internets" reveals that it's called the World Series not because Americans are parochial introverts, hellbent on calling fitba 'soccer', but because competition's first sponsor was the sausage king of New Jersey Tony "The Stick" Wurld. Man he loved baseball, ah Tony.

Even though Wurld Sausages Inc's sponsorship ceased in 1922, the name stuck and even is now applied to the famous pesopallo style game, 'USA-cricket' , albeit with a different spelling.

Wurd

[john_smullen]

Actually, even a quick glance at "the internets" reveals that it's called the World Series not because Americans are parochial introverts, hellbent on calling fitba 'soccer', but because competition's first sponsor was the sausage king of New Jersey Tony "The Stick" Wurld. Man he loved baseball, ah Tony.

Even though Wurld Sausages Inc's sponsorship ceased in 1922, the name stuck and even is now applied to the famous pesopallo style game, 'USA-cricket' , albeit with a different spelling.

Wurd

Seems like a different story here from wikipedia.


International impact, and explanation of the term "World" Series
The title of this championship may be confusing to some readers from countries where baseball is not a major sport (or even where it is), 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 at a highly-skilled level was almost exclusively confined to North America, especially the United States. 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 only professional baseball country until 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. Reaching the high-income Major Leagues tends to be the goal of many of the best players around the world.