This year’s intense World Series was one for the ages.

For decades, foreigners have scoffed at the idea that the championship of MLB is a “world” series, because baseball is played all over the planet.

But the Dodgers are the most international team in the history of the major leagues:

A trio of players made in Japan?

And a slugging right fielder heralding from obscure Cotui in the Dominican Republic?

And a Puerto Rican with rock star hair who plays any position?

And a substitute second baseman from Venezuela who fielded like a Gold Glover and hit a movie-moment homer to force the final game into extra innings?

That’s not to mention teammates from Cuba, South Korea and, yes, Louisville, Ky. (That’s the hometown of catcher Will Smith, who hit the winning homer early Sunday morning in Toronto, to launch the Dodgers to a 5-4 victory.)

It’s one reason America is number one in nearly everything from sports to Silicon Valley technology. We get the best and brightest.

And by the way, all of the Dodgers came to the country LEGALLY.