I鈥檝e been around a while.I was an adult and well aware of what I was witnessing in 1971, when Roberto Clemente showed the world what everybody in Western Pennsylvania had known for years聽鈥� that he had always been a superstar worthy of being mentioned in the same breath with Mays, Mantle ...
Baseball is a sport that evolves constantly.The game can look drastically different than what it looked like in years, months or even days previous.That axiom has proven most true when it comes to power numbers. Gone are the days of the McGwiire/Sosa era. Those gaudy home run numbers are nearly ...
Baseball is a sport that evolves constantly.The game can look drastically different than what it looked like in years, months or even days previous.That axiom has proven most true when it comes to power numbers. Gone are the days of the McGwire/Sosa era. Those gaudy home run numbers are nearly ...
Local high school football coaches are deep into off-season conditioning, but last Sunday, Elizabeth Forward coach Mike Collodi stepped out of his comfort zone that is football and made his way into the realm of baseball.Collodi was honored at PNC Park on May 28 prior to the Pirates game by the ...
To be fair, I didn鈥檛 think they would be doing this well.I am referring to the Pittsburgh Pirates, who, after pulling off a walk-off victory on Memorial Day, sported a 24-28 record. While I, like most fans, am not pleased with the team being four games below .500 the day after Memorial Day, I ...
Does the name Harry Wilhelm mean anything to you? If you are a fan of Fayette County baseball it should.Wilhelm was regarded as one of the diamond greats of Fayette County back in the day, he also was a childhood friend of General George C. Marshall, and played on the same team with the great ...
