In America's favorite pastime, the game of baseball, there is one major goal each

year for every team in the league, and that is to win the World series. For nearly one

hundred years, two teams each year have competed in a best of seven series with the

champion of the American League and the champion of the National League representing

their respective leagues. The New York Yankees have won the most titles by far, with

twenty-five championships, and the St. Louis Cardinals have the second-most with ten.

Many teams have never won the World Series, and with the small income and coverage

of some teams, they may never win a series.

From 1901 to 1902, the American and National leagues were staged in war, and

there was no World Series. The American League was still very young, and many felt

that they could not compete with the powerful teams of the National League. However, a

national championship was not far away. When the Boston Pilgrims of the American

League accepted a challenge from owner Barney Dreyfuss of the National League

Pittsburgh Pirates, the modern World Series was born ( Total World Series-Boston 1).

The Pirates entered the 1903 series he

eight members of the Chicago White Sox that were in on the fix, including Cicotte and

The World Series continued to grow popular for the next several years, until 1919,

end, only one team from each league will remain, and one of those teams will become

the pitching staff, Sam Leever and also to Honus Wagner. The Pirates had also lost

as they took home the World Series title with a very young, upstart team. The heavy-

Eddie Cicotte hit the first batter to face him, a prearranged signal to gamblers that "the fix

hitting, slick- fielding Orioles, who also boasted the majors' top pitching staff, entered

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