If you’re looking for a romantic sporting story, then this World Series isn’t for you. There will be no plucky underdog when the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees begin their seven-game series to decide the winner of baseball’s biggest prize on Friday evening.
The mythology of baseball as ‘America’s pastime’ is rooted in feelgood stories played out amid hazy summer days, culminating in a shot at sporting immortality just as the air begins to take on an autumnal crispness. And the World Series has provided plenty of that romanticism over the past decade.
