1894 by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview
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The Temple Cup
That year, 1894, it was decided that there would be a post season series to determine the champion, the winner getting the Temple Cup.
The Temple Cup was a cup awarded to the winner of an annual best of seven post season championship series for professional, major league baseball which started in 1894 and ended in 1897.
Competing teams were exclusively from the National League, which had been founded in 1876 as the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs. There was only one major league at the time, following the folding of the American Association after the 1891
season, and the post season play was between the first and second place teams of the surviving National League. The series played for the Temple Cup was also known as the "World's Championship Series."
The approximately 30 inch high silver cup was donated by coal, citrus, and lumber baron William Chase Temple, a part owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates at the time.
In the 1880s, there had been sporadic post season play between the winners of the National League and the American Association, but following the 1891 season, the National League absorbed the Association, becoming a 12 team league. In 1892, the National