Hi there, everybody, I'm Bob Prince, the voice of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and we're turning back the years

so that you can recapture the most exciting moments in Pittsburgh baseball just as they happen. 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 Kuy Kuyler is at bat.

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

Two-run score, and the Pirates win, 9-7.

Oh, how sweet it was.

The United States. 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 1909 under Barney Dreyfus, led by 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 seeing the players right now, they've got a great

system.

Everybody knows these onions, in other words, team works down pretty pat.

And the players today, I think, is in the minor leagues, one thing that you don't get

what they used to get in the minor league. All the minor league managers now won players who hit home runs,

and the fans want a home run hit it.

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