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The 1903 World Series was the first modern World Series to be played in Major League Baseball.It matched the American League (AL) champion Boston Americans against the National League (NL) champion Pittsburgh Pirates [note 2] in a best-of-nine series, with Boston prevailing five games to three, winning the last four.
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 1903 season saw the return of a postseason championship series, the World Series, following the one-off 1900 Chronicle-Telegraph Cup. It was also the first inter-league series since the 1890 World's Championship Series between the National League and defunct-since-1891 American Association.
On this day in 1903, the World Series was born. Game 1 of the eight-game series took place at Huffington Avenue Baseball Grounds, as the Boston Americans hosted the Pittsburg Pirates.
The stadium was the site of the first World Series game between the modern American and National Leagues in 1903, and also saw the first perfect game in the modern era, thrown by Cy Young on May 5, 1904. The playing field was built on a former circus lot and was extremely large by modern standards - 530 feet (160 m) to center field, later ...
One of only three in existence, the program chronicles game seven of the 1903 World Series.
October 1 – In Game 1 of the first modern World Series in Major League Baseball, Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Jimmy Sebring becomes the first player to hit a home run in the World Series when he connects for a solo shot off of Boston's Cy Young in the seventh inning. The Pirates beat the Americans, 7–3.
The 1903 Boston Americans season was the third season for the professional baseball franchise that later became known as the Boston Red Sox. The Americans finished first in the American League (AL) with a record of 91 wins and 47 losses, 14 + 1 ⁄ 2 games ahead of the Philadelphia Athletics .