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Credit with the genius of game seven. who invented the seven-game series. the answer, one of the original national team owners of the then new york giants, john t. brush. the format was one of the so-called brush rules adopted in 1905 after he blocked the championship games, at the time he refused his giants who played boston, because he thought the american league was inferia, duh, still is. the next year under his rule, his team played the philadelphia athletics in the second world series. giants won in game five. first series to actually go to brush s seven-game ending was in 1909. pittsburgh pirates beat the detroit tigers in their first championship of the mlb era. a decade later, there was a brief flirtation with a nine-game series. it lasted three years. probably for the best. i don t think chicago or cleveland fans could have handled even more games and certainly not chatman or andrew ....

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