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Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
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Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Major League Baseball franchise in Boston
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First modern Major League Baseball championship
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