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The 2005 World Series, the 101st edition of Major League Baseball's championship
series, saw American League champions Chicago White Sox sweep National League
champions Houston Astros four games to none in the best-of-seven-games series,
winning their third World Series championship and their first in 88 years.
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Home-field advantage was awarded to Chicago by virtue of the American League's
7–5 victory over the National League in the 2005 Major League Baseball All-Star
Game. The Astros were attempting to become the fourth consecutive wild card team to
win the Series, following the Anaheim Angels (2002), Florida Marlins (1997 and 2003)
and Boston Red Sox (2004). Both teams were attempting to overcome decades of
disappointment: the Astros were making their first Series appearance in 44 years of
play, while the White Sox had waited exactly twice as long for a title, having last won
the Series in 1917, and had not been in the Series since 1959, three years before the
Astros' inaugural season.
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Like the 1982 World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Milwaukee
Brewers, the 2005 World Series is one of only two World Series in the modern era
(1903–present) with no possibility for a rematch between the two opponents, due to
the Astros moving to the American League in 2013.
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The White Sox won the 1906 World Series with a defense-oriented team dubbed "the
Hitless Wonders", and the 1917 World Series led by Eddie Cicotte, Eddie Collins, and
Shoeless Joe Jackson. The 1919 World Series was marred by the Black Sox Scandal,
in which several members of the White Sox were accused of conspiring with gamblers
to fix games. In response, Major League Baseball's new Commissioner Kenesaw
Mountain Landis banned the players from Major League Baseball for life. In 1959, led
by Early Wynn, Nellie Fox, Luis Aparicio and manager Al Lopez, the White Sox won
the American League pennant. They won the AL pennant again in 2005, when they
also went on to win the World Series.
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The ratings for the 2005 World Series were, at the time, considered weak, but
today, given the 2008-2013 ratings, they are considered decent.With an overall
average of 11.1, 2005 set a record for the lowest rated World Series of all-time. The
prior lowest was 11.9, set by the 2002 World Series between the San Francisco
Giants and the Los Angeles Angels (Importantly, this series went 7 games, and the
2005 Series went 4). Following the 2005 World Series, however, the 2006, 2007,
2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 World Series produced lower ratings than the
2005 World Series. The record-low 2012 World Series, another 4 game sweep,
averaged 7.6 (3.5 points lower than 2005's rating) and 12.7 viewers (4.4 million
fewer viewers than 2005).
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