World Series

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The championship series of Major League Baseball. It is usually won by the Red Sox.

(In the preceding sentence, mentally replace the word "usually" with the word "rarely." Non-Red Sox fans thank you for your support.)

Despite popular legend, the World Series was not named in honor of a sponsoring newspaper, the New York World. See Snopes (http://www.snopes.com/business/names/worldseries.asp) for the lowdown, in which Eric Enders gives a definite response to the question.