The 1903 World Series was the first modern World Series to be played in Major League Baseball. It matched the American League champion Boston Americans against the National League champion Pittsburgh
An overflow crowd at the Huntington Avenue Grounds in Boston prior to Game 3
The 1903 Pittsburgh Pirates
The 1903 Boston Americans and Pittsburgh Pirates
Jimmy Sebring hit the first home run in World Series history, an inside-the-park home run in Game 1.
Bernhard "Barney" Dreyfuss was an executive in Major League Baseball who owned the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise from 1900 to his death in 1932. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame
Dreyfuss, c. 1909