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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]
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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. Pittsburg ...
The 1909 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1909 season. The sixth edition of the World Series, it featured the National League champion Pittsburgh Pirates [ a ] against the American League champion Detroit Tigers .
The 1913 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1913 season. The tenth edition of the World Series, it matched the American League (AL) champion Philadelphia Athletics against the National League (NL) New York Giants .
The World Series resumed 11 days later, after extensive repairs to Candlestick Park. Oakland swept the Giants in four games, but it hardly mattered at that point. Neither city would ever be the same.
And Game 5 was the most-streamed World Series game in FOX Sports history with a total average minute audience of 487,386. And with Fox Deportes, the 2024 World Series averaged 504,000 viewers ...
Christy Mathewson is the career leader in World Series complete games, with 10 during 1905–1913, all for the New York Giants. [2] While complete games were once common in the World Series (the first edition without a complete game was 1959) [3] the most recent World Series complete game win was thrown by Johnny Cueto for the Kansas City ...