Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lyle Glenn Ferguson Pittsburgh...
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...Rosten casts Lipshitz as a husband. Steinbrenner is more like an archetypal father. When he is up for the role, he is a perfect family tyrant: overbearing, insufferable, unembarrassable, the kind of man who makes scenes in public and mortifies his children. The Pittsburgh Pirates used to describe themselves as "family." That was sentimentality. The Yankees are more like a grimly real family: sullen and bruised by grievances and quarrelsome and full of parricidal silences. Presiding over the drama is the militaristic alldaddy, Steinbrenner as the Great Santini. He thunders, and acquires a certain force of nature...
...constant forays across the country, Bush is always gratified by the diversity he sees and hears. Within a three-week span this spring, he celebrated with Greek Americans, attended a Ukrainian festival, and went on to meet with labor leaders and capitalists, Westerners and Easterners. He was in Pittsburgh not long ago, the same day the steel plants laid off more workers. He went with trepidation into a mill, only to be greeted by a big warm handshake from a smiling man in a hard hat pasted with a U.S. flag decal, cracked and peeling but, like the man, still...
...began paying their way into the ballpark, if only to see what Turner would do next, but the Braves were still mired in the swamp. After they lost 16 in a row in 1977, Turner furloughed the manager, put on a uniform and supervised the 17th loss himself (to Pittsburgh...