Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series

A suspenseful account of the glorious days more than a century ago when our national madness began, the first Major League Baseball World Series.

A post-season series of games to establish supremacy in the major leagues was not inevitable in the baseball world. But in 1903 the owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates (in the well-established National League) challenged the Boston Americans (in the upstart American League) to a play-off, which he was sure his team would win. They didn't—and that was...