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Pittsburgh sports : stories from the steel city / edited by Randy Roberts.
Van Pelt Library GV584.5.P57 P55 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--History.
- Sports.
- Sports teams--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--History.
- Sports teams.
- History.
- Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- Physical Description:
- 282 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- Bringing together sports fans, historians, and a players, "Pittsburgh Sports" demonstrates how Pittsburghers feel about their sports teams and heroes. Photos.
- Contents:
- Between the whale and death / Randy Roberts
- Rinky dinks and the single wing / Richard F. Peterson
- Reflections on the pre-Renaissance Steelers / Frank Lambert
- Pittsburgh poison : the Waner boys / Thomas E. Schott
- "I lived baseball : Harold Tinker and the Pittsburgh Crawfords / Rob Ruck
- Let's go Bucs! : home, family, and the Pittsburgh Pirates / Laurie Graham
- An unforgettable team that Pittsburgh forgot (the Pittsburgh Pipers) / Chris Elzey
- How a New Yorker came to love the Penguins / Brooks D. Simpson
- Baseball in the age of disco : race, respect, and the Pittsburgh Pirates / Aram Goudsouzian
- Coal, steel, and gridiron : high school football in the Pittsburgh area / Paul J. Zbiek
- Art Rooney and the Pittsburgh Steelers / Rob Ruck.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822941430
- OCLC:
- 44128320
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