player:Andy Cohen

Fred Waring plays clarinet for Pirates manager Bill McKechnie and others outside Forbes Field during the 1926 season as Pittsburgh sought to rebound in the National League pennant race.

team:Pittsburgh Pirates

Pirates Pound Cardinals to Reclaim Second Place as Andy Cohen Debuts for Giants

Pittsburgh erupted for eight runs in one inning to reclaim second place, while a feature on rookie Andy Cohen, analysis of the Pirates' slump, and team notes captured one of the busiest baseball Sundays of July 1926.

publication:New York Daily News

Reds Deepen Giants’ Misery as Babe Ruth Waits Out the Rain — Baseball News from May 17, 1926

The Giants dropped their third straight in Cincinnati after a disastrous eighth inning, while Babe Ruth’s Yankees sat idle in the rain and Brooklyn lost a lucrative one-day stand to the weather. Baseball writers of May 1926 captured panic, frustration, and pennant-race tension coast to coast.