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ra on Nov 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: F1, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for e...

It's the same with Cricket and Rugby.

By some quirk of history, Americans got into Baseball and Gridiron instead.

They're both fine sports so it's all good; but we all have a chuckle when you have a 'world series'.

jacques_chester on Nov 29, 2012 [–]

There's a theory (according to the relevant Wikipedia entry it's a controversial theory) that the World Series is named for the newspaper which sponsored early contests.

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