Determining the best baseball team of all time is a neverending debate; no one will probably ever agree on a single team. Is it the 1927 New York Yankees? Maybe, it's the 1906 Chicago Cubs, or my favorite, the 1986 New York Mets.
Without a doubt, those three, and at least two dozen more, would be in the running when it comes to choosing the best baseball team. But, I'm partial to another team, one that rarely makes the short list of great teams. The 1884 Providence Grays, the first world champions of baseball, sort of.
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