Baseball World Series

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Houston Astros made baseball history and clinched a World Series of Baseball trip. The sad news is their home ground The Busch Stadium is being demolished to make way for a brand new state of the art Stadium. So after defeating the St Louis Cardinals they then had to face the World Famous Chicago White Sox who mangled Los Angeles Angels in four straight games a feat not seen since the 1950's.

The White Sox of the American League then repeated the event and mangled Houston of the National League to become the World Series Champions

2006 Baseball Calender, April 1 MLB season starts, The baseball season is heading for a stunning climax with free agents making all the difference in the American League Boston are ahead of New York in the East while Detroit and Chicago head the Central while in the West Oakland and Texas have it their own way for the time being. over in the National league New York are romping away with the East while St Louis and Cincinnati head the Central and Los Angeles and San Diego head the West. October 21 World Series Starts,

Baseball like cricket in the UK plays throughout the summer months some of the world's most famous teams battling it out to win their respective leagues/pennants and the world series there are some great betting opportunities and they have got them all covered. want to know more about this sport try this short history. Want the latest news visit this site. Baseball hall of Fame.

Baseball the origins
Developed from the British game of rounders which was played by colonist in North America on town meeting days. Reference to Baseball has been found in documents and newspapers in America from as early as 1791 The first recorded organized game was between the Knickerbockers and the New York Nine played at Hoboken, New Jersey on 19 June 1846 under rules drawn up by Alexander Cartwright. The distance from the pitchers mound and home plate was fixed at 60ft 6in in 1893. Eash side consist of 9 players who bat and field but the players can be replaced by substitutes from a squad of 25. Points to note under National League Rules all 9 players who field also bat under American League rules the pitcher is not required to bat and they have a designated hitter who bats but doesn't field.

World Cup started in 1938 currently held every two years the first winners were Great Britain Cuba were the last winners in 2003.

Olympic Champions Cuba

The World Series first held in 1903 takes place every October best of seven match series first winners were the Boston Red Sox in 1903 this years winners are the Chicago White Sox.

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American League

CENTRAL	WEST	EAST
Chicago	Los Angeles	Baltimore
Minnesota	Texas	Boston
Cleveland	Oakland	Toronto
Detroit	Seattle	New York
Kansas City		Tampa Bay

National League

CENTRAL	WEST	EAST
St. Louis	Los Angeles	Atlanta
Cincinnati	Arizona	Florida
Houston	San Francisco	New York
Milwaukee	San Diego	Philadelphia
Pittsburgh	Colorado	Washington
Chicago