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The World Series has been an annual baseball event since 1903. The World Series is the championship of Major League Baseball in North America played in October after the end of their regular season. The competitors are the pennant winners of the American League and the National League. The winner is determined through a playoff of seven games. The first two games of the series are played in one team's home ballpark, the next three in the other team's ballpark, and the final two, if necessary, back in the first team's ballpark.
It used to be that the team given the home-field advantage was switched every year between the American League and the National League, but starting in 2003, the league that wins the All-Star Game is given the home field advantage in the World Series.

A lot of people think that the World Series that we know today is called so because it was named for the old New York newspaper "World", which supposedly sponsored the contests when they first began. However, the truth is that it neither sponsored them nor was it their namesake. Actually, the end-of-season games that took place between the American and National League champs was originally known as the Championship of the World. More often it was called as the World's Championship Series -- as you can see from the antique program at the left of the page. Through usage over time, it was shortened to the World's Series and finally to World Series, which it is now known as.