Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other two Yankee starters did come up through the minors, if you consider the California Angels and the Pittsburgh Pirates the minor leagues. But while they were still with their former teams, Ed Gigueroa and Doc Ellis did well enough to get the call from the major leagues, the Big Apple, and they came like bargain-seekers to Filene's basement...
...brighter side, the incredible Patriots will be trying to make it three straight against powerhouse opponents when they take on the Oakland Raiders on Sunday afternoon at home. Fresh from upsets of the Miami Dolphins and the defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, the Pats should be able to give the tough Raiders a good run for their money. And the fans a good show for theirs...
...details of what actually transpired are as clear as an overcast night in Pittsburgh, but for the record, the Crimson harriers opened their season by losing to Providence and by being involved in a nolo contendere decision with UMass in what was supposed to be a tri-meet yesterday afternoon at Franklin Park...
...pine coffin was imported from Cincinnati ...The iron in the shovel that dug his grave was imported from Pittsburgh ... They buried him in a New York coat and a Boston pair of shoes and a pair of breeches from Chicago and a shirt from Cincinnati. The South didn 't furnish a thing on earth for that funeral but the corpse and the hole in the ground...
Fuqua returned to corporate trading in 1965. Wanting to buy a company with a listing on the New York Stock Exchange, he purchased a metal-plating firm, only to liquidate it-except for its controlling interest in Natco, a Pittsburgh-based tile manufacturing company. Natco was renamed Fuqua Industries and became the corporate base for J.B.'s expansion program. By 1968 he had acquired more broadcasting stations and companies in photofinishing, mobile homes, lawnmowers and trucking, which all together rang up sales of $223 million. Next came a sewer-pipe company in 1970, but he sold it because...