Hi,

Can one of you Americans please tell me why your Baseball, Basketball and Gridiron Series is called the WORLD SERIES. The only country who
participates is America so how can it be the World Series?? LOL. Please I'm not an American Basher, in fact, I grew up listening to your Icons playing Jazz, singing Country & Gospel Music. What about the movies, no country does it better than you guys. The American who I admire the most is BIlly Graham, undoubtedly a powerful speaker and a wonderful servant of the almighty.

Anyway, I hope to see some spirited replies.

Mal

If you look through this forum enough, you'll find the answer about 4 or 5 other times, cause I really don't feel like explaining it again.

Uh..........only baseball is called the World Series. And its not only Americans. 90% of the players are from other countries....and heck, Tornoto won it during my lifetime.

Originally posted by jerejerebinks
Uh..........only baseball is called the World Series. And its not only Americans. 90% of the players are from other countries....and heck, Tornoto won it during my lifetime. No where near 90% of the players in Major League Baseball is from a foreign country. I dont know exactly what the percentage is but I would guess maybe 30% are from another country. Mine might be a little low for a guesstimate but im positive it's closer than yours. I'll see if I can get some info on it.

Turns out I was very close with my guesstimate. 27.3 percent according to MLB.com statistics.


27% in the majors and nearly 48% in the minors (http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_press_release.jsp?ymd=20040408&content_id=697610&vkey=pr_mlb&fext=.jsp)

unless foreign players also mean those that are decendants of immigrants...

I was also wrong about no other game calling the championship the world series. Poker does too.

there is no explanation, really. it's just the way it is.

Maybe you just like to be different and special...
Why do you call football, soccer....???