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The World Series is the end of the season for the two best teams in America and Canada.

Today with players from around the globe joining American and National League teams, the series can be as spellbinding in the Dominican Republic and Japan as it is in New York or LA.

The winners of each league’s best-of-seven series go on to take it to the MLB World Series.

In 2009, the Phillies beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National league four games to one; the Yankees beat the Los Angeles Angels four games to two.

So as it turned out, it was an all-East Coast World Series as the Philadelphia Phillies met the New York Yankees in the 105th championship contest in MLB history.

This was the second time the two teams met in the World Series, and the first since 1950, when the Yankees swept the Phillies four games to none. History repeated in 2009 when the Phillies went down in six to give the Yankees their 27th World Series Championship.

Following the win, a traditional ticker-tape parade down Broadway's "Canyon of Heroes" took place on Friday, November 6, 2009 in downtown Manhattan to honor the home team Yankees.

2009 World Series Schedule

The televised games were broadcast on FOX in the United States and worldwide on RSN (Canada), NASN (Europe), Five (UK), and ESPN Latin America, (Dominican Republic).

GAME 1 - Wed., Oct. 28
Philadelphia Phillies at New York Yankees
Final Score: Phillies 6, Yankees 1

GAME 2 - Thurs., Oct. 29
Philadelphia Phillies at New York Yankees
Final Score: Phillies 1, Yankees 3

GAME 3 - Sat., Oct. 31
New York Yankees at Philadelphia Phillies
Final Score: Yankees 8, Phillies 5

GAME 4 - Sun., Nov. 1
New York Yankees at Philadelphia Phillies
Yankees 8, Phillies 5

GAME 5 - Mon., Nov. 2
New York Yankees at Philadelphia Phillies
Yankees 6, Phillies 8

GAME 6 - Wed., Nov. 4
Philadelphia Phillies at New York Yankees
Yankees 7, Phillies 3

World Series on the Web:

Follow your favorite teams to see who's in and who's out in the division series on the road to the World Series, along with detailed results & scores, great coverage of the history of the World Series, its teams and players, stats and record-breaking performances ...:

FOX Sports - Major League Baseball - The official TV broadcast station of the major league World Series games with stats, schedules, scores & results along with the latest headline news & rumors including video highlights, photos, fantasy baseball.

Major League Baseball - Get right to the nitty gritty of who's in competition for the pennant and the championship with this site's chart showing the current standings of each team in the majors -- updated daily during the season.

Baseball Prospectus - Opinions on which teams are cracking the stats it takes to win the playoffs and get to the championship games. Analysis of players, positions and historical comparisons make for interesting and informative reading. This site has a section for fantasy managers who want to keep up with their players info and tradeability.

History of the World Series - If you're a real baseball fan and you're looking for baseball heaven, The Sporting News is the place to be. A year by year, play by play of every world series game from 1903 on. And we quote, "Don't call it World Serious. It's much more important than that..."

World Series History - From famous ejections to the MVPs from seasons past, check out major league history, trivia and World Series fun facts at Baseball Almanac.com.

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