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A Fascinating World Series

The 2025 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays treated baseball fans to a thrilling and unexpected drama. 
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A Fascinating World Series
Clayton Kershaw #22 of the Los Angeles Dodgers raises the Commissioner's Trophy after defeating the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 in game seven of the 2025 World Series at Rogers Center in Toronto on Nov. 2, 2025. Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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I have used the metaphor of a kaleidoscope in relation to baseball (and to other sports also) to indicate that while the same simple elements remain the same, the configuration of those elements is ever-shifting. Whenever a fan is tempted to think, “I’ve seen it all before,” something new and unexpected happens on the field of play to explode that mistaken conclusion.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.