The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees will officially meet in the 2024 World Series.
Baseball fans are getting the matchup many craved because of the exorbitantly high payrolls and exceedingly elite talent on both rosters.
However, the Fall Classic will be living up to the latter part of that name because fans will get to witness a return to baseball's roots with a long overdue installment of the most common World Series matchup in MLB history.
No two teams have faced off more often for the Commissioner's Trophy than the Dodgers and Yankees franchises. They played seven times when both teams resided in New York City (1941, 1947, 1949, 1952-56) and four additional times after the former left for Los Angeles (1963, 1977, 1978, 1981).
It's been 43 years since they last met, a six-game victory for Los Angeles, but New York has had the better of the long-time postseason rivalry — winning eight of the 11 World Series meetings.
This year's contest will be seven games that harken to the golden era of baseball. Joe DiMaggio and Jackie Robinson, Reggie Jackson and Rick Monday to name just a couple of faceoffs between stars.
Now fans will get Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani to add to that storied chronicle. It will likely be the first time since 2012 that two MVPs will play against one another in the World Series, just the second time in 35 years.
New York's 41 World Series appearances are nearly double that of Los Angeles (21), but the two franchises will have combined for roughly 52 percent of the total contested (120).
