Humans have a way of referring to one thing by another name.
We give our friends nicknames. We come up with acronyms and shortened versions of all sorts of things we encounter in our every day life.
Take the Super Bowl, which gets called the “Big Game” left and right even though it isn’t that hard to say Super Bowl.
That brings us to the World Series, otherwise known as the Fall Classic.
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What is the Fall Classic?
The Fall Classic is just another way to refer to the World Series, MLB’s championship round.
It’s not really a complicated explanation. It always takes place in Autumn, and as the culmination of a marathon season, it has the potential to be memorable.
Thus, Fall Classic.
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Where did Fall Classic nickname for World Series come from?
The term Fall Classic has referred to the World Series for more than a century.
According to Baseball Almanac, it has been around since 1912.
The line appeared in the Pittsburgh Headlight: “Jeff Tesreau may prove the great sensation or the great disappointment of the big fall classics.”
Jeff Tesreau’s name has been lost to history, so a quick look down that rabbit hole reveals the rookie right-handed pitcher for the New York Giants in the 1912 World Series lost his first two starts, but then threw a complete game in Game 7 to claim the championship.
A sensation in the Fall Classic, indeed.
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