If it's the World Series, why are there only American teams?

To explain further, in the Little League world series, America is always destroyed by Japan. Do you want them to come back as adults and destroy our Major League teams too?

Well it May be NZ, but most NZers work the doors in Sydney pubs

Still a baseball fan here, and you forgot South Korea in your commentary above. (Not to mention others like Panama, etc.) I always hear the "not a World Series" comments when I travel overseas.

I used to go to KBO games when my company sent me over to Korea, so much fun. The 2022 Korean Series between the Landers and the Heroes is currently tied at 1-1. Too bad the Busan team Lotte Giants with a losing record didn't even make into the postseason, there's always next year I guess.

Find us a team outside MLB that could beat our champion 4 times in 7 and we'll rethink the name. Similar answer to all the sticklers who get mad about the Super Bowl winners calling themselves "world champions" -- there you'd only have to pull off one win, and there isn't a football team anywhere outside the NFL that could do it.

Need to invent a sport that merges cricket and baseball. Bricket or craseball. That way you would get all the old British colonies to join in and take two sports that are very popular in their home countries, but with little international presence beyond that and make them into a major international sport.

The first World Series in 1903 between the competing leagues was sponsored by the newspaper, " The New York World" hence the World Series. If the sponsor had been the NYPost or the NYTimes, today they would be playing the "Times Series" or the "Post Series" instead.

Source David Cone MLB annoucer for the Yankees.

Do the US have the best baseball players in the world ? Probably

Are the US the birthplace of baseball, the cultural center of the world for the sport? Sure seems like it.

Can you call yourself world champion, or organise a legit world championship/series without inviting other countries? Nope.

Take the NBA for instance, arguably the strongest basketball league in the world. While the US team is often the world best, it has been beaten in world championships (2019 for instance) and Olympics (2004 for instance).

Is baseball just the American version of the British children's game of rounders?

Even if teams from Canada are considered it could still be the American Series because Canada is also part of America. If we had Mexican, Cuban, or Puerto Rican teams it could also be the American Series because all of those countries are in America - North America to be exact.

”World Series” is technically not correct but it is what it is. It’s really not a big deal and I don’t think anyone is offended by the name and knows it is just the typical Statesian ethnocentrism on display.

“World champions” is sort of a stupid name for the winners of the Super Bowl when so few countries play “American Football.” If they do play it, it’s not at a high level.

Football, or what people in the US refer to as soccer, is a different story. And in a few weeks we will see how far behind the rest of the world that the United States still is.

This is the reason. Any other response is opinion.

Well. when it started, we were the only ones playing it.

Ouch.

and the more important question is - why are there no American black players in the series? systemic racism?

and why do you drive on a parkway yet park in a driveway?

Asking an American where Belgium is located is similar to asking a European where Ohio is. Asking where Florida is is like asking where Italy is to an American. Some countries are more known than others, and some states are more known than others.

I thought this was a joke thread at first, but it appears it is not. With the exception of some younger Japanese and Cuban players (and maybe a handful of others), Major League Baseball has all of the best international players even though the teams are all located in North America.

I don't think this has been mentioned, but Major League Baseball, with sanctioning by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (the game's equivalent to World Athletics), puts on the World Baseball Classic every four years. The national team that wins the tournament gets the "official" title of World Champion.

oh man you are the first person to ever point this out.

you are quite the original thinker.

Not likely. If it was systemic racism why would there be non American black players and why would there be American black players in other MLB teams? The answer to why there were no black players in MLB prior to 1947 is absolutely systemic racism but to explain this as a product of systemic racism you'd need to find evidence of an actual system designed to keep American blacks out of the Series.