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1884 World Series
Pre-modern baseball championship / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In baseball, the 1884 World Series was a post-season championship series between the Providence Grays of the National League and the New York Metropolitans of the American Association at the Polo Grounds in New York City.
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![]() 1884 World Series champion Providence Grays | |
NL: Providence Grays (3–0) | |
AA: New York Metropolitans (0–3) | |
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While the 1884 post-season championship series was the first such to be referred to as the "World's Series," Major League Baseball considers the 1903 World Series the first. Nonetheless, the 1884 series was baseball's first inter-league championship contest.