On August 12, 2004, a day before the Steelers’ first preseason game, Charlie Batch got bad news. The arthroscopic surgery that was supposed to repair a bothersome left knee revealed...
On September 20, 1907, Nick Maddox pitched the first no-hitter in Pirate history. He remains the youngest pitcher to throw a no-hitter since the pitching distance became 60 feet, 6...
On July 20, 1999. the Dodgers were at Three Rivers Stadium for a Tuesday afternoon getaway-day game. (This was right after the All-Star break, so the L.A. series started Sunday.)...
Joe Coleman was a solid big-league pitcher. His father, also Joe, had been one for the Philadelphia Athletics in the 1940s and '50s.
In October, 1972, there were stories about Pittsburgh public relations man Chuck Reichblum forming the National Tennis League. In the Oct. 6 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Vince Leonard quotes Reichblum as saying,...
On July 31, 1939, the Pirates made a major acquisition from the Syracuse Chiefs of the International League. As Lester Biederman put it in The Pittsburgh Press of August 1,...
Syl Apps was the best center in the Penguins' pre-Mario history, and is one of the club's all-time great playmakers.
On Jan. 4, 1989, three years to the day after their tie with Moscow Dynamo, the Penguins hosted an exhibition against Soviet Central Red Army.
This may have been the easiest choice of them all.
A quote that's usually attributed to Albert Einstein is "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
While I was researching last week’s piece about the Pirates and the American Baseball Guild, I came across a small story that was a little too long and off-topic to...
On June 7, 1946, the Pittsburgh Pirates voted on whether or not to play their game against the Giants that night. The United States was working its way back into...
Former Pirate player and trainer Tony Bartirome died in Bradenton, Fla. last Friday. He grew up in the Hill District and signed with the Pirates. Bartirome played for the Bucs...
Dave Burrows is one of the best defensive defensemen in the Penguins' history, if not the best.
Robert F. Prince was born in Los Angeles July 1, 1916. His father was an army officer, so the Princes moved a lot. Bob graduated from Schenley High School in...
The Pittsburgh Spirit was one of the six teams that started the Major Indoor Soccer League. In 1978-79, the league’s inaugural season, they finished fifth with a 6-18 record. In...
Bruce Kison died from cancer this past weekend. He is survived by his wife, Anna Marie, a son, a daughter and four grandchildren.
Babe Ruth came to Pittsburgh to play in official games twice.