The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada, which has been played since 1903 between the winners of the American League and the National League.
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The World Series champion is chosen by a best-of-seven playoff, and the winning club receives the Commissioner’s Trophy. Because the series is played in the fall in North America, it is also known as the Fall Classic.
For sponsorship reasons, it has been officially known as the World Series presented by YouTube TV from 2017.
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Prior to the divisionalization of the American League and National League in 1969, the club with the best regular-season win-loss record in each league automatically advanced to the World Series, barring a tie that necessitated a pennant playoff.
Since then, each league has had a championship series to determine which clubs would proceed to the World Series, with those series being preceded by division series since 1995 and by wild card games in each league since 2012.
As of 2020, the World Series had been played 116 times, with the American League winning 66 and the National League winning 50.
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Who won the World Series each year?
| 2020 | Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 2019 | Washington Nationals |
| 2018 | Boston Red Sox |
| 2017 | Houston Astros |
| 2016 | Chicago Cubs |
| 2015 | Kansas City Royals |
| 2014 | San Francisco Giants |
| 2013 | Boston Red Sox |
| 2012 | San Francisco Giants |
| 2011 | St. Louis Cardinals |
| 2010 | San Francisco Giants |
| 2009 | New York Yankees |
| 2008 | Philadelphia Phillies |
| 2007 | Boston Red Sox |
| 2006 | St. Louis Cardinals |
| 2005 | Chicago White Sox |
| 2004 | Boston Red Sox |
| 2003 | Florida Marlins |
| 2002 | Anaheim Angels |
| 2001 | Arizona Diamondbacks |
| 2000 | New York Yankees |
| 1999 | New York Yankees |
| 1998 | New York Yankees |
| 1997 | Florida Marlins |
| 1996 | New York Yankees |
| 1995 | Atlanta Braves |
| 1994 | No World Series |
| 1993 | Toronto Blue Jays |
| 1992 | Toronto Blue Jays |
| 1991 | Minnesota Twins |
| 1990 | Cincinnati Reds |
| 1989 | Oakland Athletics |
| 1988 | Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 1987 | Minnesota Twins |
| 1986 | New York Mets |
| 1985 | Kansas City Royals |
| 1984 | Detroit Tigers |
| 1983 | Baltimore Orioles |
| 1982 | St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1981 | Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 1980 | Philadelphia Phillies |
| 1979 | Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 1978 | New York Yankees |
| 1977 | New York Yankees |
| 1976 | Cincinnati Reds |
| 1975 | Cincinnati Reds |
| 1974 | Oakland Athletics |
| 1973 | Oakland Athletics |
| 1972 | Oakland Athletics |
| 1971 | Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 1970 | Baltimore Orioles |
| 1969 | New York Mets |
| 1968 | Detroit Tigers |
| 1967 | St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1966 | Baltimore Orioles |
| 1965 | Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 1964 | St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1963 | Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 1962 | New York Yankees |
| 1961 | New York Yankees |
| 1960 | Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 1959 | Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 1958 | New York Yankees |
| 1957 | Milwaukee Braves |
| 1956 | New York Yankees |
| 1955 | Brooklyn Dodgers |
| 1954 | New York Giants |
| 1953 | New York Yankees |
| 1952 | New York Yankees |
| 1951 | New York Yankees |
| 1950 | New York Yankees |
| 1949 | New York Yankees |
| 1948 | Cleveland Indians |
| 1947 | New York Yankees |
| 1946 | St. Louise Cardinals |
| 1945 | Detroit Tigers |
| 1944 | St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1943 | New York Yankees |
| 1942 | St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1941 | New York Yankees |
| 1940 | Cincinnati Reds |
| 1939 | New York Yankees |
| 1938 | New York Yankees |
| 1937 | New York Yankees |
| 1936 | New York Yankees |
| 1935 | Detroit Tigers |
| 1934 | St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1933 | New York Giants |
| 1932 | New York Yankees |
| 1931 | St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1930 | Philadelphia Athletics |
| 1929 | Philadelphia Athletics |
| 1928 | New York Yankees |
| 1927 | New York Yankees |
| 1926 | St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1925 | Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 1924 | Washington Senators |
| 1923 | New York Yankees |
| 1922 | New York Giants |
| 1921 | New York Giants |
| 1920 | Cleveland Indians |
| 1919 | Cincinnati Reds |
| 1918 | Boston Red Sox |
| 1917 | Chicago White Sox |
| 1916 | Boston Red Sox |
| 1915 | Boston Red Sox |
| 1914 | Boston Braves |
| 1913 | Philadelphia Athletics |
| 1912 | Boston Red Sox |
| 1911 | Philadelphia Athletics |
| 1910 | Philadelphia Athletics |
| 1909 | Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 1908 | Chicago Cubs |
| 1907 | Chicago Cubs |
| 1906 | Chicago White Sox |
| 1905 | New York Giants |
| 1904 | No World Series |
| 1903 | Boston Pilgrims |