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

[Colm Buckley]

On Wed 31 Oct 2001 11:21, Colm Buckley wrote:

> 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.

References:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-19622,00.html
http://www.goerie.com/baseball1/world_series.html
http://www.baseballhistory.com/worldseries.asp
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Bleachers/5573/ws.htm

Just for completeness...

          Colm

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My anachronisms are out-of-date.