Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than 25 years, the Pittsburgh Pirates have enjoyed a flood of talent at second base--Mazeroski, Cash, Stennett, Randolph, Garner, and Ray. But the Pirates have not had the same luck at shortstop. Two points for each of the following Buc shortstops you can name...
...Islanders 2, Pittsburgh...
...probably the best fielding pitcher in history, a collector of 16 gold gloves, is leaning back on a bench in Bradenton, the first Pirate to arrive for the day's game. He is the most experienced major leaguer of all, 25 seasons, 26 if he latches on with Pittsburgh or some other team this year. This appears unlikely. Frankly, his seventh big-league uniform, bright yellow with black stripes, is not his particular favorite. "I feel like a school bus with lips," he says. But he expresses no self-consciousness trying...
...this mechanism was not working in Stormie's liver. The hope was that a new organ would cleanse LDL cholesterol from her blood and perhaps even reverse the buildup in her arteries. There was one hitch, however. Says Pediatric Surgeon Basil Zittelli of Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, where the transplant was performed: "We thought that her heart, in its present condition, could not withstand the stress of a liver transplant." And so doctors decided to give Stormie a new heart as well...
Just two weeks after the groundbreaking, 15-hour operation, Stormie was watching television, eating pizza and, as she tearfully indicated at a press conference earlier this month, longing to go home to her sister in Texas. Last week she was released from the hospital, but must remain in Pittsburgh indefinitely for checkups three times a week. Doctors are encouraged by the fact that Stormie's cholesterol level is declining; they hope that the wartlike bumps will soon begin to disappear. Scientists across the country meanwhile expect to learn from her singular experience. "It was FH patients like Stormie...