Commissioner's Trophy (MLB)

The Commissioner's Trophy is a trophy presented each year by the Commissioner of Baseball to Major League Baseball's (MLB) World Series champion. The trophy depicts flags representing each team in Major League Baseball.^[1]^[2] It is the only championship trophy of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada in North America that is not named after a particular person^[3] (contrasting with the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup,^[4] Major League Soccer's Philip F. Anschutz Trophy,^[5] the National Basketball Association's Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy,^[6] and the National Football League's Vince Lombardi Trophy).^[7]

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