Executives with Major League Baseball say the 2025 World Series was the largest international broadcast operation in the history of the sport, after a surge of interest from television audiences across Canada and Japan.

“It’s one of one. It doesn’t happen,” Dominick Balsamo, the MLB’s senior vice-president of global media partnerships, said sitting in a suite above the field at Toronto’s Rogers Centre just before Game 7 on Saturday night.

Below him was an intricate network of cameras. They were in the umpire’s mask and in drones flying around the stadium, all feeding into a colony of broadcast trucks parked in a lot across the street.

Inside one truck, production staff for the MLB’s international broadcast sat hunched in front of a wall of screens. “Ninety seconds to air everybody,” som

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