World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada, contested since 1903 between the champion teams of the American League and the National League .
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22 Facts About World Series
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The winner of the World Series championship is determined through a best-of-seven playoff, and the winning team is awarded the Commissioner's Trophy.
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Since then each league has conducted a League Championship Series preceding the World Series to determine which teams will advance, while those series have been preceded in turn by Division Series since 1995, and Wild Card games or series in each league since 2012.
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The World Series has been contested 117 times as of 2021, with the AL winning 66 and the NL winning 51.
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Until 2002, home-field advantage in the World Series alternated from year to year between the AL and NL.
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The World Series brought much civic pride to Boston and proved the new American League could beat the Nationals.
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Since then the World Series has been held every year except 1994, when it was canceled due to a players' strike.
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Gandil, in collaboration with gambler Joseph "Sport" Sullivan, approached his teammates and got six of them to agree to throw the World Series: starting pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Lefty Williams, shortstop Swede Risberg, left fielder Shoeless Joe Jackson, center fielder Happy Felsch, and utility infielder Fred McMullin.
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The World Series turned out to indeed have serious consequences for the sport.
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Night games were played in the major leagues beginning with the Cincinnati Reds in 1935, but the World Series remained a strictly daytime event for years thereafter.
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The first scheduled night World Series game was Game 4 of the 1971 World Series at Three Rivers Stadium.
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Game 6 of the 1975 World Series is regarded by most as one of the greatest World Series games ever played.
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World Series games were contested outside of the United States for the first time in 1992, with the Toronto Blue Jays defeating the Atlanta Braves in six games.
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The World Series returned to Canada in 1993, with the Blue Jays victorious again, this time against the Philadelphia Phillies in six games.
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Boston Red Sox won the 2018 World Series, defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games for their fourth title since 2004.
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The Nationals achieved a couple of historical milestones: becoming the first team to win the World Series without winning a home game and bringing the title back to the capital for the first time since 1924.
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Home-field advantage in the 2021 World Series was awarded to the league champion team with the better regular-season win–loss record, the Houston Astros.
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The Dodgers' 14 World Series losses are the most by any team, while the Yankees' 13 losses are the most among AL teams.
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In 2015, the first World Series featuring only expansion teams was played between the Kansas City Royals and New York Mets.
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However, because the World Series Cup was held during the Northern Hemisphere summer, during the playing season of almost all top-level leagues, its teams did not feature the best talent from each nation.
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Chicago Cubs celebrate winning the 2016 World Series, which ended the club's 108-year championship drought.
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