Jack Todd: Baseball has become an exercise in tedium

The last time the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers met in the World Series, the Dodgers were actually the Brooklyn Robins.
It was 1916. Casey Stengel played for the Robins. Babe Ruth pitched for the Red Sox. Ruth won Game 2 — allowing six hits and one run in 14 innings to get the win. The game took two hours and 32 minutes to play.
The Red Sox won that series, four games to one. The final game took one hour and 43 minutes to play. The Sox would win again in 1918. The Red Sox woul