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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]
Prior to 2003, home-field advantage in the World Series alternated from year to year between the NL and AL. After the 2002 Major League Baseball All-Star Game ended in a tie, MLB decided to award home-field advantage in the World Series to the winner of the All-Star Game. Originally implemented as a two-year trial from 2003 to 2004, the ...
Although it was named in 1985, the trophy was first awarded in 1967, when the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Boston Red Sox.Coincidentally, the 1967 World Series was nine months after the first Super Bowl, where the Green Bay Packers were awarded the AFL-NFL World Championship Trophy for defeating the Kansas City Chiefs (the trophy was renamed the Vince Lombardi Trophy prior to Super Bowl V ...
The Boston Red Sox won the World Series in 2004 after an 86-year drought. ... the Red Sox became the first MLB team in history to come back from a three-game deficit and win.
The 1885 St. Louis Browns of the American Association. Beginning with an exhibition series after the American Association's birth in 1882, a championship series between the NL and AA regular-season champions was promoted and referred to as the "World's Championship Series" (WCS), or "World's Series" for short; however, these series are not officially recognized by Major League Baseball as part ...
1933 New York Giants (MLB) season; 1934 St. Louis Cardinals season; 1935 Detroit Tigers season; 1936 New York Yankees season; 1937 New York Yankees season; 1938 New York Yankees season; 1939 New York Yankees season; 1940 Cincinnati Reds season; 1941 New York Yankees season; 1942 St. Louis Cardinals season; 1943 New York Yankees season; 1944 St ...
This World Series also matched up two of baseball's most colorful managers, Casey Stengel of the Yankees and Leo Durocher of the Giants. This was the 13th appearance by the Giants in Series play, their ninth loss, and their first appearance since the 1937 World Series. "The Commerce Comet arrives on the final voyage of the Yankee Clipper." (On ...
Smith has spent his entire six-year MLB career with the Dodgers, including the 2020 World Series championship season. – James H. Williams World Series starting pitchers: Game 1