| Baseball fans "It is a wrap" when the last | | | | Champion? |
| out is made and we have declared our World | | | | |
| Series Champion. | | | | Who wins or has won the League Pennant? |
| | | | Watson, it must be something like simple |
| If we were making a movie or motion picture | | | | mathematics or maybe even nuclear science. |
| and we had the scene exactly right and we | | | | Well it will take a Commissioner with all his |
| felt like we had a winning shot the director | | | | wizards to do the math and determine how this |
| would command "It's A Wrap." | | | | thing is to be played out. |
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| Baseball fans we do not shut down the cameras | | | | The boys out in the country figure but the |
| nor do we call it "A Wrap" until the last | | | | figuring gets pretty complicated when some |
| out of The World Series. | | | | one starts this jazz talk about a wild card. |
| | | | Hey stud we are playing baseball not poker. |
| The boys out on the farm do not quit and call | | | | |
| it "A Wrap" until the last of the crop has | | | | How are we going to have wrap on this |
| been gathered and the hay is in barn at the | | | | baseball season? Aw-shucks lets have a play |
| end of the harvest season. | | | | off in each league to decide who is the |
| | | | league Pennant Winner. |
| Ironically the harvest season on the farm and | | | | |
| the end of a baseball season starts its shut | | | | Ok Bub, with three divisions how does this |
| down in the fall of the year say around | | | | playoff business iron out? Easy as pie since |
| mid-October. Baseballfarming and all farming | | | | pie R square, we will add a wild card into |
| calls it "A Wrap" come about the time the | | | | the circle mix and have four teams play in a |
| frost is on the pumpkin. | | | | Championship Series playoff. The winner of |
| | | | the Championship Series will then be crowned |
| Many of you good fans might have lost track | | | | our League Pennant Winner. |
| of just how we finalize the baseball season. | | | | |
| | | | As the season draws near a close about Labor |
| In years gone by it was a simple matter for | | | | Day we start paying attention to which team |
| all school boys to know and keep track of how | | | | in each division has the best record of wins |
| their favorite team was faring against its | | | | and losses. |
| stiff competition, Not today with the | | | | |
| proliferation of team after team and division | | | | Since there are three divisions in the League |
| upon division competing. | | | | the best record in each division is an |
| | | | automatic selection as a playing team going |
| How does it all end? How do we come about | | | | into this championship series whammer jammer. |
| finding out who our new champion of baseball | | | | |
| is going to be? There is a method to this | | | | Now let Einstein have his say and we take the |
| madness. | | | | very best record of all the rest of the teams |
| | | | in all three of the divisions and we will |
| Years past we had a hand full of teams in the | | | | call that team our wild card entry to join |
| American League and a few teams in the | | | | the three division top teams. |
| National League. | | | | |
| | | | That was simple enough huh? Yes, if you were |
| As the season progressed from those chilly | | | | as astute as Einstein and the Wizard of Oz, |
| days of early spring about February or March | | | | you knew all along it was a cake walk to |
| every year the glove got some good oil | | | | select our fourth team or "wild card." This |
| rubbing and the spikes were polished and new | | | | gives us a balance of four teams to compete |
| laces added and the old bat being rubbed and | | | | in the round robin tournament and gain our |
| slicked down with a coca cola bottle rubbing. | | | | selection to be crowned the League Pennant |
| | | | winner. |
| Well! good folks if you look about the | | | | |
| sporting news and count the teams and the | | | | This act is repeated in the American and the |
| banners logos you will find quite an array to | | | | National leagues to crown their very own |
| pick for your favorite. | | | | Pennant Winner for their league. |
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| Each, both the American and National League | | | | Now that we have our two crowned League |
| today consists of (three separate divisions) | | | | Pennant winners we can call it a season wrap |
| in each league not the one composite league | | | | by doing a grand finale called the Baseball |
| but (three different divisions of teams) in | | | | World Series. All Loyal fans of the American |
| each league. | | | | League and all loyal fans of the National |
| | | | League are poised to cheer and brag for their |
| Count them we have the west division, the | | | | respective loyal oath leagues. |
| central division, and the east division now | | | | |
| pray tell how do we know who is the League | | | | We get a winner and we have a Baseball Wrap. |