[ILUG-Social] [ILUG] linux in the world series...

[Noel Carroll]

Nah, I reckon its just the yanks taking the oppertunity to call their sport
a world series because nobody else gets to play them at it and, if they did,
they'd probably loose like the English cricket team!  Maybe the GAA should
rename the All-Ireland Championships to the World Hurling Championship and
World GA Footie Championships then too!  He-he!  I'm waiting for our Clare
lads to be crowned World Champions!!!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colm Buckley [mailto:colm at tuatha.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 11:21 AM
> To: social at linux.ie
> Subject: Re: [ILUG-Social] [ILUG] linux in the world series...
> 
> 
> Alan writes:
> 
> > The series was origanally sponsored by a newspaper, called the New
> > York World (or The something World) and the name World Series stuck.
> > (Tried Google, tried Encyclopedia Britannica and www.worldseries.com
> > and http://www.everything2.com/ but cant backup this statement)
> 
> Actually, I'm pretty sure this is a myth.  The official "World Series"
> started in 1903 as an inter-league championship between the National
> League and the American Baseball Association.  However, the first
> match series to be called "World's Series" was in 1884, between the
> Providence Grays (NL) and the New York Metropolitans (ABA).  The term
> appeared in the New York Clipper newspaper; there was no record of any
> newspaper called the "World" sponsoring or otherwise influencing the
> event.
> 
> Apparently, it *is* just aggrandisement, however there are some
> indications that the term was used merely to refer to the "world of
> baseball", as in the unification of the two major associations, rather
> than to the planet.
> 
>             Colm
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