World Series

The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball in the USA and Canada. It's the culmination of the sport's postseason each October. The Wolrd Series is played between the pennant winner of the American League and the pennant winner of the National League. The Series winner is determined through a best-of-seven playoff (except in 1903, 1919, 1920 and 1921, when the winner was determined through a best-of-nine playoff) and is awarded the World Series Trophy, as well as World Series rings. Since the 1850s, baseball has employed various championship formulas, and the modern World Series has been an annual event since 1903, with the exceptions of 1904 and 1994.

The New York Yankees are the record World Series champions, with 26 titles through the 2005 season. There are eight teams, all established since 1961, that have never won a World Series title. These are the Texas Rangers, Houston Astros, San Diego Padres, Washington Nationals, Milwaukee Brewers, Seattle Mariners, Colorado Rockies and Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Of those eight teams, only four have ever appeared in the Series: Milwaukee, San Diego, Houston and Colorado. The Chicago Cubs have gone the longest between titles, having last won the World Series in 1908.

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