The Buck stops at home plate

Buck Freeman scores the only run Boston needs 123 years ago today to beat Pittsburgh in the eighth and final game of the first World Series in history.

Freeman, a first baseman and the pride of Catasauqua, Pa., leads off the bottom of the fourth inning with a triple to right off Pirates starter Deacon Phillippe and later scores on a one-out, two-run single to center by Hobe Ferris.

Boston eventually wins the game 3-0 – and the 1903 World Series – in front of a Tuesday afternoon home crowd of 7,455.

Freeman, the first player to be a home run champion in both the American and National leagues, eventually finishes his pro career in 1910 in the minor leagues with the Class B Harrisburg Senators.

With Harrisburg in 1910, Freeman bats .286 in 113 games with the last four homers of the 163 he hits during a 21-year career in the game.

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