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On Jun 15, 7:00 am, charles wrote:

in the same way that the US Baseball championship is called "The World
Series"?

It's called the World Series because it was originally sponsored by
The World newspaper.

Urban myth. I used to think that too.

Paul DS.

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On Jun 15, 7:00 am, charles wrote:

in the same way that the US Baseball championship is called "The World
Series"?

It's called the World Series because it was originally sponsored by
The World newspaper.

Urban myth. I used to think that too.

Paul DS.


Seems like a reasonable name to me. Do you think that there is a team in
the world that would be better than the winner of the World Series? Is
there a college team in the world that could seriously compete with Texas or
LSU who are playing in the College "World Series"? The fact is that
baseball was hardly noticed anywhere in the world other than in the US when
the World Series was started and since then only a few other countries have
taken it seriously, so as far as baseball is concerned, North America ( plus
maybe Japan ) makes up most of the "world."

Leonard

Any "dumb nut" can work out that to be a WORLD series it must have
participants from many different parts of the world ,
thus it is a US series NOT A WORLD SERIES
Arrogant Yanks!
But then again to Yanks there is no where else but USA.

John H
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"Brad VK2QQ" wrote in message
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On Jun 15, 7:00 am, charles wrote:

in the same way that the US Baseball championship is called "The World
Series"?

It's called the World Series because it was originally sponsored by
The World newspaper.

Urban myth. I used to think that too.

Paul DS.


Seems like a reasonable name to me. Do you think that there is a team in
the world that would be better than the winner of the World Series? Is
there a college team in the world that could seriously compete with Texas
or LSU who are playing in the College "World Series"? The fact is that
baseball was hardly noticed anywhere in the world other than in the US
when the World Series was started and since then only a few other
countries have taken it seriously, so as far as baseball is concerned,
North America ( plus maybe Japan ) makes up most of the "world."

Leonard

On Jun 25, 6:31*pm, "John H" wrote:
Any "dumb nut" can work out that to be a WORLD series it must have
participants from many different parts of the world ,
thus it is a US series NOT A WORLD SERIES
Arrogant Yanks!
But then again to Yanks there is no where else but USA.

John H"Leonard Caillouet" wrote in message

well I did a little bit of checking and find that your comment is not
really fair to the Americans. The series is over 100 years old and
when named it was anticipated that it WOULD become the World's Series,
commencing with America, then Australia, then Britain. While that
never happened, the name stuck and changed a little. Can't blame them
for being inclusive and thinking big.

"John H" wrote in message
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Any "dumb nut" can work out that to be a WORLD series it must have
participants from many different parts of the world ,
thus it is a US series NOT A WORLD SERIES
Arrogant Yanks!
But then again to Yanks there is no where else but USA.

John H

Sure there is plenty outside the USA...you just don't matter when it comes
to baseball.

No one here would get bent if you claimed to have a world championship in
Cricket that only had teams from the UK. Who would care?

Leonard

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On Jun 25, 6:31 pm, "John H" wrote:
Any "dumb nut" can work out that to be a WORLD series it must have
participants from many different parts of the world ,
thus it is a US series NOT A WORLD SERIES
Arrogant Yanks!
But then again to Yanks there is no where else but USA.

John H"Leonard Caillouet" wrote in message

well I did a little bit of checking and find that your comment is not
really fair to the Americans. The series is over 100 years old and
when named it was anticipated that it WOULD become the World's Series,
commencing with America, then Australia, then Britain. While that
never happened, the name stuck and changed a little. Can't blame them
for being inclusive and thinking big.


Hell, we are arrogant in many ways. But then we have reason to be in some
ways. It just chaps some chaps whether it is justified or not.

Leonard

Brad VK2QQ wrote:
On Jun 15, 7:00 am, charles wrote:

in the same way that the US Baseball championship is called "The World
Series"?

It's called the World Series because it was originally sponsored by
The World newspaper.

sounds good, but not so:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_series

In answer to all the replies.
It's still one big ego trip on the Yanks part.
Could have changed it if the wanted, but they didnt want too as their egos
were too big.
John H


"John H" wrote in message
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Any "dumb nut" can work out that to be a WORLD series it must have
participants from many different parts of the world ,
thus it is a US series NOT A WORLD SERIES
Arrogant Yanks!
But then again to Yanks there is no where else but USA.

John H
"Leonard Caillouet" wrote in message
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"Paul D.Smith" wrote in message
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"Brad VK2QQ" wrote in message
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On Jun 15, 7:00 am, charles wrote:

in the same way that the US Baseball championship is called "The World
Series"?

It's called the World Series because it was originally sponsored by
The World newspaper.

Urban myth. I used to think that too.

Paul DS.


Seems like a reasonable name to me. Do you think that there is a team in
the world that would be better than the winner of the World Series? Is
there a college team in the world that could seriously compete with Texas
or LSU who are playing in the College "World Series"? The fact is that
baseball was hardly noticed anywhere in the world other than in the US
when the World Series was started and since then only a few other
countries have taken it seriously, so as far as baseball is concerned,
North America ( plus maybe Japan ) makes up most of the "world."

Leonard

Leonard Caillouet wrote:

Any "dumb nut" can work out that to be a WORLD series it must have
participants from many different parts of the world ,
thus it is a US series NOT A WORLD SERIES
Arrogant Yanks!
But then again to Yanks there is no where else but USA.

Sure there is plenty outside the USA...you just don't matter when it
comes to baseball.

No one here would get bent if you claimed to have a world championship
in Cricket that only had teams from the UK. Who would care?

The other 103 countries that are ICC members?

"John H" wrote in message
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In answer to all the replies.
It's still one big ego trip on the Yanks part.
Could have changed it if the wanted, but they didnt want too as their egos
were too big.
John H


Do our egos really bother you that much, John? I thought such enlightened
and sophisticated societies such as yours would be beyond such concerns.

Leonard