Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three Pittsburgh pitchers had been mauled for 15 hits in the first eight innings; yet the Pirates were still in the game, tied 9-9 with the San Francisco Giants. Out of the bullpen strode little (5 ft. 8 in., 155 Ibs.) Elroy Leon Face, and suddenly the crowd at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field knew everything would be all right. It was. Face shackled Giant batters for three innings, and the Pirates won in the eleventh...
Righthander Face is the chief reason the Pirates are still in the National League pennant race. He has won ten without a defeat, saved four more games for other Pittsburgh pitchers. In fact, he has not lost a game since May 30, 1958. So far this season, Face is the major leagues' winningest pitcher. At week's end his earned-run average was a stylish 1.12. In 40⅓ innings, he had walked only seven batters, struck...
Almost everybody in Pittsburgh and other steel-producing areas now expects a steel strike on June 30; last week negotiators were farther apart than when they started six weeks ago. The United Steelworkers of America and the industry's four-man team, representing twelve companies, devoted more time to bombarding each other with press releases than to negotiating. At week's end the talks degenerated into a pointless skirmish over routine procedures of negotiation, and the union's 171-member wage policy committee authorized its officers to call a strike...
...steel heatedly debate one subject. They beat it to pieces during Coke breaks in the fiery shadows of the open hearths, carry it into the Balkan Café and the Mill City Inn and Ernie's Steak House, hash it out in their homes. The crucial subject: the Pittsburgh Pirates, once the door mat of the National League but at week's end five games from first place...
...vacation-I don't give a damn"), yet were unsure of what to strike for ("What we need is a six-hour day, a 34-hour week"). But the seasoned older workers, who well know the belt-tightening frustration of past long strikes, feared another one. Said one Pittsburgh worker: "Some workers even wish the President would seize the mills rather than prolong the agony." A lot of them think it is a matter for union brass alone to decide. "If you're in the Army," says one, "you don't have much to say about whether...