[citation needed] In America Barney Dreyfuss lived and worked with the Bernheim family in Paducah, Kentucky.

He fueled his interest by organizing amateur baseball teams first for the distillery workers, then for semi-pro clubs around Louisville.

The team won the league pennant in 1890, and played to a 3-3-1 draw in the pre-modern World Series against the Brooklyn Bridegrooms, which became today's Los Angeles Dodgers.

When Dreyfuss immigrated to America, it was Pulliam who taught him how to speak English (though to the day he died, he spoke with a marked German accent).

However Pulliam's greatest contribution to the Colonels occurred when he convinced Dreyfuss to sign future Hall of Famer Honus Wagner to the team.

By this time, however, the National League contracted several teams after the 1899 season and Dreyfuss purchased a half-interest in the Pittsburgh Pirates.

As part of the deal, he negotiated the transfer of the best Louisville players, namely Wagner, Fred Clarke, Tommy Leach, Deacon Phillippe, and Rube Waddell to Pittsburgh.

At the end of the 1908 season, Dreyfuss decided it was time that Pittsburgh had a new, larger stadium for its growing fan base and winning team.

The team's current field, Exposition Park, was made of wood and so close to the banks of the Allegheny River that the outfield regularly flooded after heavy rains.

[3] Dreyfuss signed a contract that he would "make the ballpark ... of a design that would harmonize with the other structures in the Schenley Park district.

"[4] The site was initially labeled "Dreyfuss's Folly" due to its long distance—a 10-minute trolley ride—from downtown Pittsburgh; however, the land around the park developed and criticisms were dropped.

While Pirates did lose their first game at Forbes to the Chicago Cubs, they did go on to win the 1909 World Series later that year, over the Detroit Tigers.

He also worked to abolish the three-man commission that ran the National League in favor of appointing a baseball commissioner, a post to be occupied by Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis.

Landis, the presidents of both the National and American Leagues, club executives from competing teams, and players such as Honus Wagner and Deacon Phillippe, served as honorary pallbearers at his funeral.

Florence, now majority owner of the Pirates, urged her son-in-law, William Benswanger, to take over as president and operating head of the franchise.