Well, the World Series was so named because it originally decide which of the two US champs was the winner... and "Real championship series" didn't feel like it would sell a lot of ... baseball [img]smile.gif[/img]
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There is an old myth that the New York World was responsible for its naming, but that's not quite true.
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