Alexander: ‘Fight For Glory’ revisits Dodgers’ 2024 World Series run

They definitely don’t make the official World Series movie the way they used to.

At the beginning, some 82 years ago, it took the form of what might now be considered a newsreel, and the reason it was created during World War II was so that the troops overseas could see what was happening back home.

“The United States government approached Major League Baseball and said, ‘Look, our troops overseas want to see the World Series,’” director R.J. Cutler said in an interview last week.