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Question by Armando S: Why is it that in Baseball its called the "World" Series, if they don't even play against the world? It should be called national or something, not like in soccer, where the "World" Cup actually is the best teams in the world playing against each other. Best answer for Why is it that in Baseball its called the "World" Series, if they don't even play against the world?:

Answer by Jeff m
Very good point. It should be called the MLB championship or something.

Answer by Matthew
Everyone from the "world" Plays for some team in the "world" series. look at the MVP last night lol

Answer by Daniel
TRADITION

Answer by yr2square
Yeah, and why is it called cottage cheese? There are no cottage's in it. What's the deal with that?

Answer by Information Police
Because the best players in the world play in the US Major Leagues.

Answer by Fungo
This question has been asked and answered correctly several times during the past 2 weeks. From Wikipedia: The series were promoted and referred to as the "The Championship of the United States", "World's Championship Series", or "World's Series" for short. As baseball outside of North America was not equal to that of North America at the time, the winners of the championships were by default the best baseball team in the world. The 19th-century competitions are, however, not officially recognized as part of World Series history by Major League Baseball, as the organization considers 19th-century baseball to be a prologue to the modern baseball era. Until about 1960, some sources treated the 19th-century Series on an equal basis with the post-19th-century series. After about 1930, however, many authorities list the start of the World Series in 1903 and discuss the earlier contests separately. (For example, the 1929 World Almanac and Book of Facts lists "Baseball's World Championships 1884-1928" in a single table, but the 1943 edition lists "Baseball World Championshipsâ€"1903-1942". According to baseball scholars cited in the Public Broadcasting Service television documentary Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns, players searched worldwide for teams to compete in "World Games" or "World Series" during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Players and promoters such as Albert Spalding would travel the world for teams to play against each other or against American teams. The barn-storming "tours" didn't last long, yet they gave the opportunity to promote sporting goods, as well as to create new leagues and rules. Although the tours did not succeed in spreading baseball to the rest of the world (or in creating foreign teams that would be accepted into the existing annual competition), the title "World Series" has remained.

Answer by Cookie
Because of U.S. arrogance. It's true that MLB is represented by players from different countries but it's hardly a World representation. Just as the NFL for example, the winners wrongly consider themselves as World Champs. The Japanese are the true World Series champions and this series should be called MLB Championship. Go Pirates!

Answer by Nick
Because people from all around the "world" play

Answer by Tejai
Brain freeze...................

Answer by tweety
It's been played since 1903, when only the U.S. had professional baseball. Therefore, a team winning the series became "world champions" by default, since no other country was playing baseball at the time. At any rate, they're not going to change the name of it to something else. The World Cup finals involves 32 teams. However, there are more then 32 countries in the world. They should call it the Top-32 cup or something. Anyway, if you don't like any of the answers given here, you can check out the other 1,858 times this has been asked.... http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=AnRUFQ0jakBGIw2Qg9aPmDlUxQt.;_ylv=3?p=why+called+world+series

Answer by Ron
There are many answers to your question depending on which historian you consult. Basically, when the first games professional championship baseball were played in the US baseball was hardly a world sport. So, any baseball championship played in US represented the "world" of baseball. Since those early days baseball has caught on in Asia, Europe, and the rest of our hemisphere and many of the players participating in today's world series hail from all over the world and has been recently included as an olympic sport. With so many other countries now playing baseball, our World Series is now something of a misnomer. US professional teams play against Japan's best (baseball is very popular there as well) in a quasi World Series and aside from the Olympic competition, that's about as close as we come to a true "world" series. We are slow to change our relished references in sports to something representing their true function - that title change may never come. Check out "world series" at wikipedia.com for more info.

Answer by The Fuzz
Origin of the Name "World Series" 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.

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Published October 19, 2012

Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan â€" Â Police say 15 civilians were killed and 18 wounded when the minibus they were traveling in was hit by a blast from a roadside bomb in Afghanistan's northern Balkh province.

The group of men, women and children was traveling to a wedding on Friday in Dawlat Abad district, police spokesman Shir Jan Durani said.

Earlier this month, the U.N. Security Council expressed serious concern at the high number of civilian casualties in the war, especially among women and children. It noted that an increasingly large number are caused by the Taliban and other armed groups.

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