I've recently become a baseball fan, though I'm still trying to learn about it - what is the final championship called?
The final game  series is the World Series.  
I know baseball has been around for a long time - when did the professional games first start?
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History.
From 1947 to 1956 and again in 1965, NBC only aired the All-Star Game (beginning in 1950) and World Series. From 1957 to 1989, the network aired the Saturday afternoon "Game of the Week" (or a variation of it prior to 1966, when NBC did not hold the exclusive over-the-air television rights). From 1994 to 1995, NBC aired games under a joint broadcasting venture with Major League Baseball and ABC called The Baseball Network. From
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