Honestly.........if this was the 1st interleague play.......................game, championship.......then this should be the 1st world series......


Although nearly all baseball fans rattle off 1903 as the first World Series, this 19th-century match-up is recognized among baseball historians as the real first “World Series.”
There was no model for post-season interleague championship play before 1884. No such series had even been possible until 1883 when the National League, the American Association, and a minor league (the Northwestern League) reached a peace settlement that became known as the Tripartite Agreement or National Agreement.
The 1884 season started with unprecedented excitement for fans (then called cranks) and great anxiety for team owners