Why in baseball is it called the World Series if it is only played in the U.S.A & Canada?
138931
Players from all over the world play in the US
394021
No it's not fair that the winner of one game has home field advantage in the World Series.  Usually the team with home field advantage is the American League because they usually have the better League.  The team with home field advantage should be the team with the best overall record.  The All-Star game should just be a game for bragging rights, if not just for fun.
440422
Because the World Cup is a once-in-a-lifetime event to see.  They only have it once every four years and it probably won't be in your country but once in your lifetime.  The passion and intensity is something that is rarely seen in all of sports (except the Olympics) and to see the amount of pride that the players take in their respective nations is astounding.  If only us Americans appreciated soccer more instead of sports like the thuggish NBA or "put me to sleep" MLB that we watch.
219761
I think that originally, there weren't any Canadian teams included in Major League Baseball.  Also, baseball began in America, so it was the only baseball league, and therefore it sort of WAS the world of baseball competing (except the world was only America, since there wasn't baseball anywhere else).  Thus, the World Series was a big deal since it was the two best teams in baseball in the whole world!  Also, it probably just makes it sound more exciting with "World" in front of it, so they didn't change it when Toronto and Montreal joined; they just stuck to tradition.
178186
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 !!!!!
212681
The World Series began in 1903.  At that time, the entire baseball world was the U.S.  We've kept the name because of inertia/tradition/laziness or whatever reason you like.
588285
Every country have their sports that they love.  I'm a New Zealander and I love rugby and cricket.  Baseball is America's favourite past time so why deny any country that privilege.
789915
You said it!\nAnd then they have "World" Series tournaments for Baseball....
650169
Because Lamar Hunt(owner of the Kansas City Chiefs) saw his daughter playing with a high bounce ball as we call them. He asked her what is was called. She said it was a superball, yeah another name for the same thing. He liked the name and suggested naming the NFL Championship game the Super Bowl. I think though that you are mistaken with the World Series of Baseball when only the U.S. and Canada have teams that can play in it. You are now just getting picky and silly. Super Bowl just a refrence to importance and how great it is not to country.
51322
Cricket is a much better game than not only Baseball but also than any other games.\nCricket is played and is supported by the people all over the world,but Baseball is mainly played in USA.
147625
The World Series is actually so called because the first such event was sponsored by a news paper called the WORLD.  The name stuck.\n\nIt is a misconseption that the winner of the World Series is the World's Champion.
4768
I think tht is a valid question to ask in other sports like basketball, baseball and hockey, which are played in other countries, but American football is only played in America, well unless you count the CFL, but nobody does.\n\nIts a known fact that the best players in the world are in the NFL, and the same can be said in the NHL, NBA and MLB.  I think the fact that the NFL has the best players gives them the right to say "World Champion".
1153179
because "soccer" is only called soccer in the US...everyone around the world calls soccer "football" or "futbol"
684961
2000 Subway series..Yankees vs. Mets.  Outside of the metropolitan area, nobody cared.  The fan base was consolidated to 1 area and the rest of the country didn't care to watch it because their part of the nation wasn't represented.  The world series got very low ratings that year.
350175
Yes, the WBC was designed to promote baseball internationally, and it was a huge success this year. The players are fully supportive of the chance to play for their home country, and the fans loved it. The format of the tournament should be changed (should be more similar to the World Cup of soccer) and they should play it in the middle of the MLB season every 4 years (have an extended All-Star break during the year of the Classic).
999349
Because it's a lovely, tactical game that is also low-scoring and therefore much more exciting than those high-scoring games.\n\nIt demands great stamina AND inteligence at player level, and perspicaciousness at spectator level. The latter is probably the reason why American "football" fans cannot understand it ...\n\nLast not least, it's the ONLY truly global sport, unlike that plethora of provincial games we see in U.S. television. The World Cup is indeed international in scope and audience, unlike so-called "world series" ...
462559
It IS one of America's favorite sports.\n\nPlease note that America, as the proper name of a country, needs to be capitalized.  Also note that "favorite" has a preferred spelling, and that questions always end in a question mark, even though you ended yours with a period (Y!A supplied the question mark).