Why call it the world series when only American teams compete ?
203871
It was to go along with Michael Jackson's song "We Are the World" that is sung at every ballgame in the 7th inning.
574092
I've yet to understand the popularity of baseball myself but hey to each there own.  When I ask my family about world cup and I have to tell them it's soccer. They roll their eyes and yawn.  To those that never played the game it is rather boring and you can catch all the action on the highlight reel of the late night news.  When you get down to it, when one doesn't know someone that's actually playing it's hard to spark interest.  Baseball players, basketball etc...have become household names and hence an increase of popularity.
95892
I think you're right. I also think it will never happen: Too much cash tied up in the brand.  It started in the early 1900's when Americans were the only people on the planet playing baseball, and so were literally WORLD champs.
205714
There are all types of divisions...both age and ability defined...open any age D division less talented teams...Under 30 you get the idea...most are fairly competitive..Not as much at lower divisions  but hey it's all good  Umpired a few years... Even have a world series in Ariz following season...
663934
Yeah, it would be refreshing to see the U.S. play The Ivory Coast , or Poland in baseball. You want to watch the "WORLD SERIES", something that means something, wait till the Little Leaguers square off. Then you will see base played like it was meant to be played....between players who play for the fun of it.
413958
Absolutely behind u on that.Some of these smaller cities have but one news paper,so naturally NY would dominate.Besides there is a lot of money behind them and they want to keep their jobs.It has been biased from day one.If these smaller franchise could spend money on players like the Yankees have, they wouldn't have won all those championships.
18734
Part of it is so that no team has home-field advantage, as other people said. That's important since it's just one game. Other sports have a championship series where three games are at one place and four are at the other. Both teams get a pretty even shot. You can't do that with the Super Bowl.\n\nThe other reason is the amount of people who go to the Super Bowl. You have tons of media, advertisers, team representatives, and other people who come in for just this one event whether they go to the game or not. They all need hotels, and that needs to be set up a year or so in advance. Do you remember after Septbember 11, 2001, when the NFL tried to move the Super Bowl one week later and had huge problems with it? They eventually got it moved, but it was a huge headache for the hotels and the car dealer convetion that had to move.
416108
While soccer has the biggest international following of any sport, in the USA, there's just too much competition and too little interest in America.  Baseball, basketball, hockey, football, NASCAR and college sports all eat up precious amount of media time.  MSL, America's soccer league, gets covered but it's secondary.  \nIt's fan interest and papers and other media cater, as they should, to what their readers want.  It's a shame, soccer is a great game but the competition with other sports is just too great.
593691
The World Series is the only true world-sporting event, where the best team plays in the best league with the best players.  Unlike the European Football leagues, they have a league for each country, and elite teams in it so since they don’t all play against each other you may never actually know who the best team is.  In baseball, the cream raises to the top so to speak and the best team wins.  Because MLB will and does find the best players from around the world and have them play in the league, below is a list of some countries that have had players play in the World Series.  \n\n\nAruba, Austria, Australia, Bahamas, Colombia, Cuba, Curacao, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Panama, Poland, Russia, Scotland, South Korea, South Vietnam, Spain, Sweden,  Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine, Virgin Island, Venezuela, and Wales just to name a few
169327
I think it is because American teams are owned by individuals. I don't think they are sponsored.
83977
I think it was to give the fans the best possible games to see.  Often 1-4 is a very lopsided series and the 2-3 is very close.  In some senses, team 1 has an unfair advantage and team 2 has a much more difficult time.  This sort of gives both the # 1 and2 teams an equal chance against their opponents.  The top teams should win still, but it should also give more entertainment.
559567
Despite its name, the World Series is not a "world championship" in the same sense as the FIFA World Cup or the Cricket World Cup because it is not between national teams, but is limited to Major League Baseball teams, which represent individual cities and states (currently of the United States and Canada only).
404
Because the MLB didn't want to suspend its season to let the professional players go to the olympics, in a manner similar to what the NHL does for the winter olympics.\n\nThis plus other problems like a poorly designed qualifying scheme meant that piss-poor teams from Europe and Africa went to Athens, but several very good teams from N & S America were left out led to almost no ticket sales. It was all about the Money.
70766
Tell me you people are joking  !!!!   You really have no idea do you ?????   Of course baseball is played in Europe.  Are you seriously comparing baseball to cricket ??\nBaseball is played in England, Holland, Belgium, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Sweeden, Greece, Croatia, Ukraine, and Russia.\nI guess most of you are Americans, wake up guys !!! there is somewhere called  " THE  REST  OF  THE  WORLD"    You really need learn that there are countries in the world other than the good old USA !!!!!
643412
Maybe its the word "world" that confuses them.  Maybe they equate the truly global "World Cup" with their "world series" of baseball.  \nSomone please tell me 'cos I can't seem to remember how many people from around the world tune into the "world" series.\nI think its just instilled in the american psyche to think they are the best, they are the world.
125830
Yes. The way baseball is now teams that can spend a lot of money, and do it wisely, stand a much better chance of being competitive. I expect that both teams will be in the playoffs this year and I'd give it a 1 in 4 chance that there will be one this year.
56973
The best players from countries all over the in the world play on US teams. \n\nAlso do not forget, the name World seies came about 100 years or so ago. At that time, there was little question that the best baseball in the world was played in the US. It is just a name, I weould not get that worked up over it.