The major league baseball season lasts from April to October and includes the regular season, the playoffs, and the World Series. The final series in the league playoffs determines which team wins the pennant, or championship, of their league. The two pennant winners meet in the World Series , and the winner of this series becomes the major league world champion. The sport that evokes more nostalgia among Americans than any other is baseball. Today, professional baseball attracts millions of spectators to ballparks each year and entertains millions more through radio and television broadcasts.
Professional baseball includes the major leagues and the minor leagues .
Amateur baseball includes Little League , high school and university competition , and various community leagues. American soldiers brought baseball to Japan, where it is widely played. Baseball is also popular in Cuba and other Caribbean nations. Abridged from U.S. State Deparment IIP publications and other U.S. government materials. Any reference obtained from this server to a specific commercial product, process, or service does not constitute or imply an endorsement by the United States Government of the product, process, or service, or its producer or provider.