Major League Baseball World Series
The MLB World Series is the championship series for Major League Baseball. The New York Yankees have won twenty-six World Series championships, more than any other franchise and more than the combined number of titles won by the next three most successful clubs in Major League Baseball. The St Louis Cardinals have won ten and the Oakland Athletics have won nine World Series titles. The Series takes place in mid-autumn, and as such, sportswriters many years ago dubbed the event America’s "Fall Classic".
Major League Baseball has employed various championship formulas since the beginning of baseball back in the 1800’s. The modern World Series has been an annual event since 1903. The first MLB World Series took place in 1903 between Boston of the American League and Pittsburgh of the National League. Boston came out as the first Major League Baseball World Series Champions by winning five games and holding Pittsburgh to three wins. However, in 1904, the National League Champion New York Giants refused to play the American League Champions Boston again because of the alleged "inferiority" of the American League, along with the legitimate claim that there were no formal or standard rules for this World Series championship. In response, the World Series was instituted in 1905 as a permanent institution, through which the leagues would "meet annually in a series of games for the Major League Baseball Championship, or better known as the MLB World Series.
Until 1969, Major League teams could only reach the championship game by merely having the best records in their respective leagues. If two teams were tied for the best record at the end of the scheduled season, the winner of a head-to-head playoff game between the two teams was declared winner of the "pennant", and therefore represented the league in the World Series.
A change occurred in 1994 with the expansion of the Major Leagues and the establishment of the Central Divisions. This created an odd number of teams in each league's playoff tournament, so a fourth playoff team was added. It was called the wildcard team. This playoff system was based off of the system used by the National Football League.
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