The dramatic ending of the World Series on Saturday night, in which the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 in 11 innings in Game 7 to repeat as champions , was closely followed by pronouncements calling it the greatest ever.

It’s an argument that never ends because whenever there is a great World Series, we automatically assume it was better than all the ones that preceded it.

I can recall people saying just that after covering the Florida Marlins beating the Cleveland Indians in Game 7 of the 1997 World Series, in which Craig Counsell’s sacrifice fly with one out in the ninth tied it and Tony Fernandez committed an error on Counsell’s grounder in the 11th that led to the series-clinching run on Edgar Renteria’s walk-off single in a 3-2 win .

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