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The World Series:

A Brief History of the October Classic

In America?s favorite pastime, the game of baseball, there is one major goal each

year for every team in the league, and that is to win the World series. For nearly one

hundred years, two teams each year have competed in a best of seven series with the

champion of the American League and the champion of the National League representing

their respective leagues. The New York Yankees have won the most titles by far, with

twenty-five championships, and the St. Louis Cardinals have the second-most with ten.

Many teams have never won the World Series, and with the small income and coverage

of some teams, they may never win a series.

From 1901 to 1902, the American and National leagues were staged in war, and

there was no World Series. The American League was still very young, and many felt

that they could not compete with the powerful teams of the National League. However, a

national championship was not far away. When the Boston Pilgrims of the American

League accepted a challenge from owner Barney Dreyfuss of the National League

Pittsburgh Pirates, the modern World Series was born ( Total World Series-Boston 1).

The Pirates entered the 1903 series heavily favored to win even with injuries to the ace of

the pitching staff, Sam Leever and also to Honus Wagner. The Pirates had also lost

pitcher Ed Doheny to mental illness.

In game one of the series, Cy Young took the mound for the Pilgrims, but was

stunned in the first inning as the Pirates scored four runs and went on to take a 1-0 series

lead. In the game, the Pirates? Jimmy Sebring hit the first home run in World Series

history (Total World Series-Boston 2). After taking a commanding 3-1 series lead, the

tide began to turn on the Pirates. The Pilgrims won the next two games, and in game

seven, Bill Dinneen held the Pirates to four hits as he shut them out for the second time in

the series, giving the Boston Pilgrims the first ever World Series Championship.

The World Series continued to grow popular for the next several years, until 1919,

when members of the Chicago White Sox were rumored to have thrown the Series. In the

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