How the World Series Got Started, Plus Origins on its Trophy and Logos
Now in its 121st edition, the Fall Classic grew out of a series of trial runs, handshake deals, and experienced a few stops and starts before settling into the seven-game battle for a flag-filled prize we know today.
Before 1903, the champions of each professional baseball league had to go out to find someone else to play. The National League’s Providence Grays met (and swept) the American Association’s New York Metropolitans in a three-game set in 1884, and other versions of NL-AA championships continued on and off through 1891. The NL tried a split-season format in 1892 with a postseason series between the winners of each half, but that idea was discontinued after one year. In 1894, Pittsburgh Pirates co-owner and president William C. Temple put up a trophy for a seven-game series between the NL’s first- and second-place finishers, known as the Temple Cup, but it lasted only four seasons.
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