It's still not that bad of a name. When you get down to it, baseball is still a predominantly North American phenomenon. (and Japan). To point out the hypocrisy in an earlier post, if nobody else is playing the game, it then becomes a "World Championship" by default.

If you really want hypocrisy, 'soccer' is mostly from the 1880's, coming out of England. 'Football' started off in 1869, between Rutgers and Princeton (based on rugby). And for those who frown on the whole 'why do they call it football if you catch it with your hands' situation, 'soccer' originally used hands as well - because it came from the same roots.

Interesting how the English founded most of the major sports out there - except baseball. Yes, it was based on rounders, but as it is now is much more an American thing. It's odd that other countries haven't taken it up. Maybe because it doesn't have as many grunting men physically trying to hammer each other in one way or another. Even in soccer, there's a lot of slamming into each other, and 'whoops, didn't mean to kick you there'.