World Series Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids World Series
Commissioner's Trophy
League	Major League Baseball
First played	1903
Most recently played	2023
Defending champions	Texas Rangers (1)
Most titles	New York Yankees (27)
Sponsor	YouTube TV (2017–2019) Capital One (2022–present)

The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada. It is held during late October to early November. It has been contested since 1903 between the champion teams of the American League (AL) and the National League (NL). The winner of the World Series championship is determined through a best-of-seven playoff, and the winning team is awarded the Commissioner's Trophy.

Prior to the AL and NL being split into divisions in 1969, the team with the best regular-season win–loss record in each league automatically clinched its league's pennant and advanced to the World Series, barring the rare tie necessitating a pennant playoff. Since then each league has conducted a League Championship Series (ALCS and NLCS) preceding the World Series to determine which teams will advance, while those series have been preceded in turn by Division Series (ALDS and NLDS) since 1995, and Wild Card games or series in each league since 2012. Until 2002, home-field advantage in the World Series alternated from year to year between the AL and NL. From 2003 to 2016, home-field advantage was given to the league that won that year's All-Star Game. Starting in 2017, home-field advantage was awarded to the league champion team with the better regular-season win–loss record, regardless of that team's seeding in earlier playoff rounds (ie a Wild Card team in one league will have home-field advantage over a division winner in the other league if the WC team had a better record or wins the tie-breaking procedure).

The World Series has been contested 119 times as of 2023, with the AL team winning 68 times and the NL team 51.

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The 1919 Chicago White Sox outfield
Game 1 of the 1955 World Series between the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers
President Ronald Reagan congratulating the 1987 Minnesota Twins on their World Series victory
Chicago Cubs celebrate their 2016 World Series victory
Rooftop view of a 1903 World Series game in Boston
Game action in the 1906 Series in Chicago (the only all-Chicago World Series to date)
Bill Wambsganss completes his unassisted triple play in 1920
Washington's Bucky Harris scores his home run in the fourth inning of Game 7 (October 10, 1924)
The Chicago Cubs celebrate winning the 2016 World Series, which ended the club's 108-year championship drought.

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