In a message dated 01/11/2004 15:26:06 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> No, this is an urban legend probably made up by Americans who were > embarassed to still be calling it the World Series in this day and > age. From everything I've read, at the time that the series was > named 100+ years ago, there were only two major baseball leagues, > the National and the American, both located in the US since the game > was invented here. At the time the series was named, the winners > really were the world champions since the game hadn't expanded > elsewhere. Now of course that's a silly name since there are many > other leagues worldwide, but people are creatures of habit. By the > way, there are a couple of Canadian teams that play in the leagues > as well, so it is at least an international series. :) > > Lisa in Dallas, Texas Things you hear on radio 4 - last week they said that this was calleed the world series because it was originally sponsored by the Chicargo world news and was therefore the Chicargo world series and became shortened to world series. Regards Liz in London I'm back blogging my latest lace piece - have a look by clicking on the link or going to http://journals.aol.com/thelacebee/thelacebee To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
