[celticninja]

Except the World Series is named after the original sponsors of the competition and is not meant to infer worldwide participation. I'm not from the US and I am not from somewhere that plays competitive baseball and I know that,therefore I assume in the competitive baseball world this is known widely enough.

[monocasa]

Nah, it being named after the New York World newspaper is just the sports blogger equivalent of an old wive's tale. It really was built off of the US exceptionalism of the gilded age with the idea that nobody could beat the US at it's own game anyway so why bother inviting them.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=467571...

[mumblemumble]

The New York World story even has its own Snopes page: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/world-series/