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Author | : Bill Ranier |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2015-03-07 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 147661668X |
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The 1970s were both successful and tragic for the Pittsburgh Pirates. They won five NL Eastern Division crowns and the 1971 World Championship, but lost the great Roberto Clemente in a plane crash and pitcher Bob Moose in a car accident during this time. By the end of the 1970s, the Pirates were a good team but no longer considered favorites to win a World Series. Thanks to a fantastic finish in 1978, the Pittsburghers gained new hope for the 1979 season. As intriguing as the season was, it wasn't until the evening of August 25th that the Pirate fans really started to believe "it" could happen. The history of that magical ball club is covered here, from how the 1979 world champion team was built, to a thorough look at the season and post season, to how "The Family" finally fell. Also included are biographical sketches of all players who appeared on the team's roster that year and a section of complete statistics.
Author | : Ronald T. Waldo |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0786487895 |
Download The Battling Bucs of 1925 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
After coming close to winning the pennant on more than one occasion during the early 1920s, the Pittsburgh Pirates finally shed the stigma of being underachievers and claimed the National League flag in 1925, ending the New York Giants' four-year reign at the top of the league. Manager Bill McKechnie's brigade of young guns moved on to oppose the defending world champion Washington Senators in the World Series. After falling behind three games to one, Pittsburgh pulled off the greatest comeback in World Series history when they rallied to win in a thrilling seventh game. This detailed history recounts the entire 1925 Pittsburgh Pirates season, paying special attention to the team's construction and the World Series. Appendices provide complete statistics for the 1925 Pittsburgh Pirates, box scores for all seven games of that year's World Series, and World Series statistics for both teams.
Author | : Bill Morales |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2011-08-10 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 078648568X |
Download Farewell to the Last Golden Era Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In 1960, Major League Baseball reached a crossroads in its history. Facing a challenge from the Continental Baseball League, the owners of the original 16 major league teams elected to admit new clubs. This in-depth look at that pivotal season--the last played with only the original 16 teams--follows the New York Yankees and the Pittsburgh Pirates on their march to the 1960 World Series. The trials and triumphs of these two teams reflect the changes, large and small, that came to define the sport in the following decades--surnames on the backs of the uniforms, exploding scoreboards, the increasing impact of international players, and foremost of all, expansion. Marking the end of the "Golden Age" of baseball and the beginning of the ascendancy of professional football as the national pastime, this historic season witnessed the intersection of the past and future of American professional sports.
Author | : Rick Cushing |
Publisher | : Dorrance Publishing |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2010-03 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1434904989 |
Download 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : David Finoli |
Publisher | : Black Squirrel Books |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781606351604 |
Download Classic Bucs Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Chronicles the fifty greatest games in the history of the Pittsburgh baseball team from 1900 to the present, providing box scores and analyses for each featured matchup.
Author | : Jason Vuic |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2016-08-30 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1476772266 |
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"Chronicling the first two seasons of the worst team in NFL history, an entertaining sports story follows the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the 1976 and 1977 seasons in which they cemented their place in football history as having the longest losing streak in the history of the league,"--NoveList.
Author | : Jim O'Brien |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Baseball |
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Download Maz and the 60's Bucs Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Bill Nowlin |
Publisher | : SABR, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2013-04 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1933599499 |
Download Sweet '60 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Sweet ’60: The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates is the joint product of 44 authors and editors from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) who have pooled their efforts to create a portrait of the 1960 team which pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the last 60 years. Game Seven of the 1960 World Series between the Pirates and the Yankees swung back and forth. Heading into the bottom of the eighth inning at Forbes Field, the Yankees had outscored the Pirates, 53-21, and held a 7–4 lead in the deciding game. The Pirates hadn’t won a World Championship since 1925, while the Yanks had won 17 of them in the same stretch of time, seven of the preceding 11 years. The Pirates scored five times in the bottom of the eighth and took the lead, only to cough it up in the top of the ninth. The game was tied 9–9 in the bottom of the ninth. At 3:36, Bill Mazeroski swung at Ralph Terry’s slider. As Curt Smith writes in these pages: “There goes a long drive hit deep to left field!” said Gunner. “Going back is Yogi Berra! Going back! You can kiss it good-bye!” No smooch was ever lovelier. “How did we do it, Possum? How did we do it?” Prince said finally, din all around. Woods didn’t know—only that, “I’m looking at the wildest thing since I was on Hollywood Boulevard the night World War II ended.” David had toppled Goliath. It was a blow that awakened a generation, one that millions of people saw on television, one of TV’s first iconic World Series moments.
Author | : Thad Mumau |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2015-07-04 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1476619379 |
Download "Had 'Em All the Way" Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates were a special team--team being the operative word. There were no superstars, although Roberto Clemente would become one, and nobody had a record season. The Battling Bucs frequently came from behind to win late in the game, with Pirates broadcaster Bob Prince signing off, "We had 'em all the way." Pittsburgh was the Sad Sack of baseball through most of the 1950s, and as the Pirates grabbed the National League lead early in the 1960 season, fans wondered if the guys in vest-shirts and black sleeves could indeed hang on. And then there was the World Series, the one everybody but the Pirates thought would be won by the Yankees, in which Bill Mazeroski provided the most dramatic finish of all sports championships. This book, featuring interviews with Clemente, Dick Groat, Bob Friend and Dick Schofield, chronicles the Pirates of 1960--a team of friends--and their push through a long and magical season.
Author | : Frank Garland |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2013-05-06 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0786465344 |
Download Willie Stargell Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book brings to life one of baseball's greatest sluggers, Willie Stargell. It examines the factors that shaped him as a man growing up in the tumultuous racial times of the 1950s and '60s, and then recreates the major moments in his Hall of Fame baseball career. His various endeavors during the post-playing days are fully explored as well. Interviews with more than 80 people--family members, childhood friends, teammates, opponents, front office workers and others--combined with dozens of newspaper and magazine articles shed light on the iconic patriarch of one of baseball's last great "families," the 1970s-era Pittsburgh Pirates.