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In baseball the World Series is the championship games of Major League Baseball in North America<\/span><\/a>, played in October<\/span><\/a> after the end of the regular season between the pennant winners of the American and <\/span>National League<\/span><\/a>s. The Series winner is determined through a best-of-seven playoff<\/span><\/a>, meaning that the first team to win four games wins the series. The World Series has been an annual event since 1903. <\/span>It is played at the baseball stadiums of the two teams in the series. <\/span>Baseball is so popular that it is sometimes called the \u201cnational pastime.\u201d The word “ballgame” in the United States almost always refers to a game of baseball, and “ballpark” to a baseball field<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>The rules of baseball can be found here http:\/\/aupairinamerica.com\/resources\/life_in_the_us\/baseball.asp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"