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Into the Hall: Leckrone baseball

The Fayette County Baseball League celebrated its 50-year anniversary in 2025 and one of the dominant teams in its early years was Leckrone, which won eight championships in a span of 15 seasons from 1977 to 1991. Leckrone won four consecutive titles from 1984 to 1987 and that team will be ...

Nick Herbig knew most NFL teams thought he was too small to play outside linebacker. That three years of creating chaos across the Big Ten while coming off the edge at Wisconsin wouldn't be good enough to convince clubs that he could do the same at the sport's highest level. The Pittsburgh ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Cam Smith hit a tiebreaking two-run triple to cap HoustonÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ six-run eighth inning, Isaac Paredes homered and the Astros overcame a five-run deficit to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 11-9 on Wednesday night. Yordan Alvarez had four hits and two RBIs for the Astros. Smith and ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers are making a big investment in tight end Darnell Washington. The club signed the 6-foot-7, 264-pound Washington to a new five-year contract that will keep him in black and gold for the rest of the decade. Washington, who had a career-best 31 ...

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FRIDAY, JUNE 5 PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL Pittsburgh at Atlanta, 7:15 p.m. DISTRICT BASEBALL Fayette American Legion Brownsville at Carmichaels, 6 p.m.

Belle Vernon Post 484 scored six runs in the fourth inning and five in the fifth to take control in a 12-2 victory over Uniontown Post 51 on Wednesday at Hutchinson Field in Hopwood. Belle Vernon (2-1) broke a 1-1 tie with its six runs in the fourth for a 7-1 lead. Uniontown (2-1) cut the ...