The 1985 MLB Season: One Of The Best Ever
The 1985 MLB season was one of the best we’ve seen in TheSportsNotebook’s historical period of 1976 to the present. Three of major league baseball’s four divisions had races that came down the final week and all three were settled with head-to-head series. We of course keep in mind that pre-1994, that was the era when a division race was winner-take-all with no wild-card cushion.