How Toronto Won the World Series in 1926 w/DM Fox

You are sitting in the rain at a brand new baseball stadium on Toronto's waterfront.

It's late April 1926.

The field is soaked, the crowd is soaked, and the home team is getting absolutely destroyed.

Five runs to nothing.

There's supposed to be a celebration today.

The stadium is brand new.

It took seven months to build.

There are thousands of people here to see Toronto unveil what is being called one of the finest baseball stadiums outside the major leagues.

The commissioner of baseball is in town.

There are dignitaries in the stand.

And now with the game almost over, the Toronto Maple Leafs are losing five to nothing.

The rain keeps coming down.

Then the ninth inning starts.

One runner gets on.

Then another.

A hit.

Another hit.

Suddenly the crowd is awake.

Five runs.

Five runs in the bottom of the ninth.

The game is tied.

And somehow after everything that has gone wrong, Toronto wins it in the tenth.

You've just watched the first game ever played in one of the most ambitious sporting buildings Toronto has ever seen.

But the strange part is, nobody knows yet what this stadium is about to become.

Because this isn't just the opening day of a new ballpark.

It is the beginning of the greatest season in the history of a Toronto baseball team that most people today have never heard of.

And by the end of the summer, they will be champions.

This is the story of the 1926 Toronto Maple Leafs.