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The phrase was used even in the 1880s, when an irregular series was played between the champions of the National League and the American Association. How or why the words were used is still in dispute.
The name has simply stuck, the same way the people in the western part of the Eurasian continent refer to "Europe" as a separate continent, in phrases such as the European Union. Call it linguistic laziness.
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