Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really a nostalgic person at heart," Johnson said two days later, after Lee Mazzilli's pinch hit for Pitcher Sid Fernandez started to restore the manager's public brilliance. "Mazzilli was a hero here in New York before he was shipped to no-man's-land -- Pittsburgh and Texas. I like to see guys come back and be stars again." Tom Seaver, the ultimate Mets' star, sat out the series in the Boston clubhouse. Now and then, in the quiet time after games, Seaver leaned back on a locker and raised a sheet of X rays to the light...
...Monarchs uniform. Over the 39 years they have been allowed to win World Series' games, six black pitchers have done it: Joe Black of Brooklyn, Bob Gibson of St. Louis, Jim ("Mudcat") Grant of Minnesota, John Wyatt of Boston, John ("Blue Moon") Odom of Oakland and Grant Jackson of Pittsburgh. Before the third game, when the Mets appeared ready to be vanquished if not swept in Boston, Boyd began to imagine himself in the baggy flannels of another day. By the time he came to in the first inning, Game 3 was decided, and when another start in the seventh...
Gamble gained more than 100 yards in a game for the 16th time in his career, equalling the school record set by Rich Erenberg, now with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He also went over 1000 yards for the season, becoming the first Red Raider in two seasons to do that...
This week aides will take the show on the road, fanning out to 15 areas from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles. Says Speakes, their dispatcher: "I told these guys they had to get an invitation to do a speech, then hold an open press conference, do a local television show and an editorial-board meeting with the local papers, and then they could come home." In every speech, interview and appearance, the spin doctors hammered at three main points...
...Patriots' defense scored one touchdown, set up two others with turnovers and constantly pressured Pittsburgh rookie quarterback Bubby Brister as the Steelers suffered their worst loss since they moved into Three Rivers Stadium...