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This was eventually shortened to "World's Series" and then "World Series". While no international federation has ever sanctioned the series as a world championship event, its winners are still sometimes referred to informally as "world champions" by baseball players, owners and writers within the United States and Canada.[1]

The World Series championship is determined through a best-of-seven playoff. Best-of-seven has been the format of all the modern World Series except in 1903, 1919, 1920 and 1921 when the winner was determined through a best-of-nine playoff. The Series winner is awarded the Commissioner's Trophy, as well as, for the last several decades, individual World Series rings. The Series winning club also receives a larger proportion of the gate receipts than does the Series loser.

The New York Yankees of the American League have played in 39 of the 104 Series through 2008 and have won 26 World Series championships, the most of any Major League franchise and exactly one quarter of all World Series titles won to date. For the National League, the Dodgers have appeared in the Series the most at 18 times (9 each in Brooklyn and Los Angeles), but have won the Series only 6 times (once as Brooklyn, five times as Los Angeles). The St. Louis Cardinals have represented the National League 17 times and have won 10 championships, which is the second most of any Major League Team.[2] The Chicago Cubs have the longest streak of not winning the World Series, with their last championship coming in 1908.

The original World Series
Until the formation of the American Association in 1882 as a second major league, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (1871-75) and then the National League (founded 1876) represented the top level of organized baseball in the United States. All championships went to whoever had the best record at the end of the season, without a postseason series being played. Starting in 1884 and going through 1890, the National League and the American Association faced each other in a series of games at the end of the season to determine an overall champion. These matchups were disorganized in comparison to the modern Series: games played ranged from as few as three in 1884 to a high of 15 in 1887 (Detroit beat St. Louis 10 games to 5), and both the 1885 and 1890 Series ended in ties, each team having won three games with one tie game.[3]

The series were promoted and referred to as the "The Championship of the United States",[4][5] "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.[6] Until about 1960, some sources treated the 19th-century Series on an equal basis with the post-19th-century series.[7] After about 1930, however, many authorities list the start of the World Series in 1903 and discuss the earlier contests separately.[8] (For example, the 1929 World Almanac and Book of Facts lists "Baseball's World Championships 1884-1928" in a single table,[9] but the 1943 edition lists "Baseball World Championships–1903-1942".[10])

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.[11]

[edit] 1892–1900: "The Monopoly Years"
Further information: List of World Series#1892-1900: "The Monopoly Years"
Following the collapse of the American Association after the 1891 season, four of its clubs were admitted to the National League. The league championship was awarded in 1892 by a playoff between half-season champions. This scheme was abandoned after one season.[12] Beginning in 1893 — and continuing until divisional play was introduced in 1969 — the pennant was awarded to the first-place club in the standings at the end of the season. For four seasons, 1894–97, the league champions played the runners-up in the post season championship series called the Temple Cup.[13][14] A second attempt at this format was the Chronicle-Telegraph Cup series, which was played only once, in 1900.[15]

In 1901, the American League was formed as a second major league. No championship series were played in 1901 or 1902 as the National and American Leagues fought each other for business supremacy.

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