I don’t binge watch TV, but in this sportless time I sort of made an exception for Ken Burns’s phenomenal 1994 documentary Baseball. I say sort of because even I can’t sit on my butt for eighteen hours straight. The Pirates and their then-owner Barney Dreyfuss were instrumental in the evolution of the sport, and I’m sure that Dreyfuss, who came up with the idea of the World Series, was very happy that his Bucs finally won their first in 1909. 1909 was also the year that Forbes Field opened, the first stone-and-steel baseball stadium in America.
Trivia Tuesday: The 1909 Pirates
