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Sports & Recreation > Baseball History Why the World Series of baseball is seven games long: 2 of 2

Today's World Series - the World Championship of Baseball - is a given. Except for the truncated 1994 season, a championship series has been played between the National League and the American League since 1905, with the first series between the two leagues having been held in 1903. Over the 103 World Series; 99 have been a best-of-7 affair. What of those other 4-series and why are there 7-games in the series? The first World Series in 1903 was a best of 9-game arrangement between the American League Champion Boston Americans (later the Boston Red Sox) and the "Pittsburg" (sic) Pirates. Wh...
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