More than any other sport, baseball’s a game where numbers take on mythical resonance. Even the most casual fans know what numbers like 56, 714 and 755 represent. For as long as there are baseball fans, the institutional knowledge of digits like Jackie Robinson’s uniform number (42), the New York Yankees’ greatest team (1927) and Ken Griffey Jr.’s first Upper Deck card (1) will live on.
It’s time to add another number to that list: 2017.
Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has decided that the Houston Astros won’t be stripped of their 2017 World Series championship.