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Dreyfuss, Barney | Baseball Hall of Fame
In so many ways, baseball is one of the few sports where physical size is not an automatic benefit or detriment. In basketball, height is a tangible that leads to success. In football, size is often viewed as a virtue. But in baseball, greatness comes in all sizes and packages. So to this end, one can ask the question, "How large does someone need to be to cast a tall shadow?" How do you measure greatness in baseball? Is it by hitting 600 home runs? Is it by winning 300 games?
http://baseballhall.org/hof/dreyfuss-barney
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Barney Dreyfuss - BR Bullpen
Barney Dreyfuss owned the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1900 to 1932. He also had owned the Louisville Colonels; when the National League shrank from 12 teams to 8 in 1900, he moved most of the Louisville stars to Pittsburgh, including Honus Wagner, Fred Clarke, Deacon Phillippe, Rube Waddell and Jack Chesbro, thus forming the first powerhouse team of the 20th Century.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Barney_Dreyfuss
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American National Biography Online: Dreyfuss, Barney
Dreyfuss, Barney (23 Feb. 1865-5 Feb. 1932), Pittsburgh Pirate baseball owner, was born in Freiberg, Germany, the son of Samuel Dreyfuss, a merchant, and Fanny Goldsmith Dreyfuss. Samuel Dreyfuss was a naturalized American citizen who had established a dry goods business in Kentucky during the 1850s but who had returned to Freiberg in 1861 because of ill health. Barney finished his formal schooling in Freiberg, and at fifteen he worked as a bookkeeper for a bank in Karlsruhe.
http://www.anb.org/articles/19/19-00981.html
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A century later, Pirates' legendary owner makes Hall | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- It took more than a century, but the bold entrepreneur who guided the Pirates to their earliest glory finally was recognized with immortality.
http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/2007/12/04/A-century-later-Pirates-legendary-owner-makes-Hall/stories/200712040257
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Barney Dreyfuss | Society for American Baseball Research
In an issue published a few days after the grand opening of Forbes Field, Sporting Life extolled Pittsburgh team owner Barney Dreyfuss: "[he] had the mind to conceive and the courage to execute the plans which have given the world the grandest and most costly ball park in existence, deserves the greatest credit, highest praise, and utmost good fortune for his stupendous enterprise, which has ennobled the National League and enriched the city of Pittsburg." [1] Not bad press for a man who just twenty-four years before had arrived from Freiburg, Germany with just a few dollars in his pocket, knowing very little English, with an invitation to work in his cousins' bourbon distillery in Paducah, Kentucky.
http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/29ceb9e0
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Barney Dreyfuss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bernhard "Barney" Dreyfuss (February 23, 1865 – February 5, 1932) was an executive in Major League Baseball who owned the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise from 1900 to his death.He is often credited with the creation of the modern baseball World Series. He also built one of baseball's first modern steel and concrete baseball parks, Forbes Field, in 1909. During his period of ownership, the Pirates won six National League pennants and World Series titles in 1909 and 1925; only the New York Giants won more NL championships (10) during the same period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Dreyfuss
