You can accuse them of ignorance when it comes to the World Series -- at the time it was named, in 1903, it really was just that. (Cuban baseball has a rather slim, date-light history given on Wikipedia...thus making it impossible to tell if they had a major-league level league at that time. Everybody else? The earliest would be Japan, and that league formed in 1920 & broke up in 1923.)
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Date: 2006-07-18 01:06 pm (UTC)I just realized...
You can accuse them of ignorance when it comes to the World Series -- at the time it was named, in 1903, it really was just that. (Cuban baseball has a rather slim, date-light history given on Wikipedia...thus making it impossible to tell if they had a major-league level league at that time. Everybody else? The earliest would be Japan, and that league formed in 1920 & broke up in 1923.)