Kovacevic: ‘Greatest game ever played’ … somehow all but forgotten in our city

Our city’s been blessed by 16 big-league championships between the Steelers’ six and the Penguins and Pirates with five each. A quarter of those have come in the past dozen years, to the point we’re all familiar with the precise parade route through Downtown.

Maybe because of that, the one championship game that just might have represented the greatest of them all, nearly a century ago, has been all but forgotten.

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A common, fun question I’m asked by readers is which single sporting event I’d cover if I could go back in time. Any full game: Yeah, that’ll always be a cold and rainy Oct. 15, 1925, inside Forbes Field in Oakland.

Pirates vs. Senators, Game 7. Don’t believe me?

OK, it’s not like I was there, either, but I’ve collected every scrap available on this for years, and the story of what took place that day only gets better with each.

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