World Series Contestants Not At All Familiar

When Interleague play began in Major League Baseball in 1997, baseball purists everywhere pitched fits. How dare teams from the American League and National League play in the regular season!

They aren't supposed to meet until the World Series.

Well, when the Fall Classic begins on Wednesday night in St. Louis, we'll have the next best thing to complete unfamiliarity when the Rangers and Cardinals meet for just the fourth time ever.

The teams have played one three-game series, back in 2004 at Rangers Ballpark in which the Cardinals took 2 of the 3 games.

Michael Young is the only Ranger that was on the team back in 2004, and he was able to manage two hits off of Chris Carpenter, who will start Wednesday's Game 1 of the World Series.

That's about all the familiarity there is.

What a great World Series this is going to make with two fanbases, two cities and two baseball teams who really know nothing about each other.

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Let the games begin.

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