Why is the baseball championship called the world series when only US teams play?
363815
Very good question...It's what prompted the World Baseball \nChampoinships this year for the first time....Some feel that it's not fair that MLB named it the World Series considering not every country gets a chance to represent...There are players from all over the world playing in our(U.S.) Major Leagues, but still, it's not the "World" series if every country doesn't have a chance to enter a team...
270697
The US team is full of "All Stars", but they aren't playing as a team.  They are all completely focused on looking good, not getting hurt, and concentrating on the upcoming MLB season.  \n\nAll in all, it's probably better if the US doesn't win the WBC. If another country wins, that encourages kids from that country to try baseball.  Some of those kids will become stars.  In the end it will make for better professional baseball.
1007039
I have no idea why we call it the World Series, but we do!!\n\nJust like we call the winner of the Super Bowl, World Champs, it's not right...who knows why we call things the things we do!\n\nAnd, whoa, what's with all the anti-American statements, what did we ever do to any of you guys?  Nothing!  And I KNOW THERE IS A WORLD BEYOND THE USA.............you people with your anti-American statements are idiots!!
1153179
because "soccer" is only called soccer in the US...everyone around the world calls soccer "football" or "futbol"
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.
322127
They didn't. They played in the League Championship Series. After the Red Sox beat the Yankees in the LCS, they played (and beat) the Cardinals in the World Series. But the media downplayed the World Series because the LCS was so dramatic, in their eyes.
1018464
Only Major League Baseball teams can partake of The World Series.\n\nCurrently that would be AMERICA and canada
144031
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.
892650
I agree that other countries are pretty much on the same level as the United States when it comes to baseball.  I don't think it's embarrassing at all.  It's just the normal evolution of the game world wide.  It had to happen one day.  Just look at basketball, another American game.  We don't dominate basketball either on the world circuit anymore.  There are great athletes all over the world in all sports.  One day I'd like to see a real world series.  The champions from all the leagues across the world play in a world championship tournament and crown a real "World Champion."
256178
It was  due to the fact that besides USA, and a few other countries, baseball is not played in any other countries. Furthermore, baseball was constantley one of the poorest attended sports when it came to the Olympics, Equestraian got more of an audiance than baseball.
21664
It's a little hard to judge that.  Many teams come from different regions of countries, and usually it's the country, not the particular team, that receives the credit for winning.  The United States has won 26 titles, Chinese Tapei 17, and Japan 4.  No SPECIFIC team has won it more than twice.
1143815
why does it say chicago in the front of the name, there is no other team in this city. as far as i am concerned there is only the cubbies and the world series got cancelled last year. shame thats 2 cancelled world series in the last 11 years. \n\n(can u tell I am a cubs fan)
1081685
there is no such thing as usa world cup soccer league. the world cup is an event between national teams every four years with a different host. a league is a country's group of city clubs (like nfl, nba, mlb, etc.) for the usa's league, MLS got to mlsnet.com    for the world cup go to fifaworldcup.com  for other national leagues search on yahoo or wikipedia
315274
Becasue back in the early 1900s, the U.S. was the only country in which people were playing baseball professionally and in competitve forms.  The champions back then were actually the best in the world.  So when they named it, there weren't thinking hmmm....100 years from now people from Japan and Latin America will be playing the sport and importing a lot of our best players.\nNow people from other countries play the sport, but I don't think there's really any reason why to change the name from the "World Series" to the "American Series".
458530
I take it it's Baseball you are talking about, well the answer is because truthfully The American baseball stars are really the only baseball stars, as In Britain at least I know there are no pro baseball stars that i have heard of. We class it as a grown up version of a popular children's game called rounders played by schoolgirls over here. and P.s Celtic won it first.
801552
USA fans are more passionate because there is a greater variety of sports. Here in England there are really only soccer being a popular sport where as in USA, you have basketball, baseball, american football, hockey etc.
1104890
New York isn't the only state with 2 teams.  As so many people have pointed out, Ohio has the Indians and the Reds, Illinois has the Cubs and the White Sox, Texas has the Rangers and the Astros, Florida has the Marlins and the Devil Rays, Missouri has the Cardinals and the Royals, Pennsylvania has the Phillies and the Pirates, California's got 5 teams in the A's, Giants, Dodgers, Angels, and Padres, and a case could be made for the Washington D.C./Maryland area having two teams in the Nationals and the Orioles.\n\nIf you're talking about the city of New York, they're not the only city to have two teams either.  The Cubs and the White Sox both play in Chicago, and even Los Angeles has two teams (can anyone forget the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim?), although the Angels play down the I-5 in a completely different county.\n\nAnd wait, I'm still not done.  The Yankees have been throwing money at players for years and yet they haven't won a World Series since 2000 when they beat the Mets.\n\nDude, check your facts before you start shooting your mouth off.