It's the seventh and deciding game of the 1925 World Series.

Darkness, rain, and tension by the turn at Forbes Field.

Last of the eighth, the bases are loaded with bucks, and Kai Kai Kuyler is at bat.

Two out, Kailer hits a drive down the right field line.

Two-run score, and the Pirates win, 9-7. Oh, how sweet it was. Oh, how sweet it was. The The 1925 Pirates, only team in baseball ever to win the series after being down three games to one.

Impossible?

Sure, they're the Impossible Pirates, and they played it that way for 60 incredible years.

They won four National League pennants in nine years, from 1901 to 19009 under Barney Dreyfus,

led by a manager Fred Clark, sparked by Honus Wagner, everybody's all-time shortstop,

Babe Adams and other greats.

They played Boston in the very first World Series in 1903, dropping that one

five games to three. Then they won the series in 1909, beating Detroit four games to three.

And this is how Jay Honest Wagner, in the twilight of his career as a pirate coach, compared

baseball as it was played in those days to the game of today.

Well, it's quite a difference now than seems the players right now,

they've got a great system.

Everybody knows these onions, in other words, teamwork down, put it pat.

And the players today, I think, is in the minor leagues, one thing is you don't get what they used to get in the minor leagues.

All the minor league managers now want players to hit home runs, and the fans want a home run hit it.

So they decided the managers in the minor league decided that they keep up young fellas who can hit

a long ball. In the old days they had speed and they'd bonded a whole lot and they sacrificed

the whole lot. And being a dead ball, of course, the outfielers didn't place a deal and they

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