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 | The World Series is held in October and concludes the major league baseball season. |
| The first World Series was held in 1903, when Barney Dreyfuss, owner of the NL champion Pittsburgh Pirates, challenged Henry Killilea, owner of the AL champion Boston Americans (later renamed the Boston Red Sox), to a best-of-nine-games series. |
| The 1920 World Series, which matched the Cleveland Indians and the Brooklyn Dodgers (later the Los Angeles Dodgers), became memorable for one of baseball's rarest feats—the unassisted triple play. |
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| The Junior World Series of that same year, partly hosted in Baltimore's converted football stadium, easily outdrew the "real" Series and attracted attention to Baltimore as a potential major league city. |
| Another all-Missouri World Series was played 41 years later, with the Kansas City Royals defeating the Cardinals in seven games. |
| The only other World Series in which both teams had the same home field were in 1921 and 1922, between the New York Yankees and New York Giants, played entirely at the Polo Grounds; Yankee Stadium opened the following year. |
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