Word: pittsburgh
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...strike can't go on forever, and at least some owners will want to crack first. Small-market teams like Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and Montreal will need to drink from their primary pool of income, gate receipts, very soon. The irony is that Montreal was at the top of the NL East, yet they couldn't fill Olympic Stadium. The answer is simple; move the team south where people care. A serious profit-sharing initiative, such as those in place in both the NFL and NBA, will have to be implemented to save small market clubs...
...currently right in baseball. Playing in a small market with a team that knows little about winning, his highlight films rarely made the 11:00 news on the East Coast. Yet fans nationwide were acutely aware of his quest to break Roger Maris' home run record; he arrived in Pittsburgh this year for the All-Star game with 1.8 million votes more than any other player in history. He recently played himself, in the movie Angels in the Outfield. People are actually seen outside of King County wearing Mariners caps. All of this is good for the business of baseball...
Dolly will visit more than 40 North American cities before the end of 1995, (it's in Pittsburgh this week) with Broadway and an international tour projected to follow. Staged and choreographed by veteran performer Lee Roy Reams under the supervision of composer Jerry Herman, the show has all the snap and style one remembers from Gower Champion's original production, which won a record 10 Tony Awards (Channing beat out Barbra Streisand's performance in Funny Girl). Exceptfor its confused and too hasty resolution, Michael Stewart's book -- about a meddlesome, matchmaking widow -- craftily melds song and dance. Corny...
...ideal flying weather. The twilight skies were clear, with only a few small clouds, and winds were a negligible 7 m.p.h. USAir Flight 427 was nearing Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after an uneventful flight from O'Hare Airport in Chicago. Right around 7 p.m. the pilot radioed approach control at Pittsburgh International Airport, set in heavily wooded, lightly populated hills 12 miles northwest of the Golden Triangle, that he was "in range," about to ask for landing clearance...
...USAir Boeing 737, en route from Chicago to Palm Beach, Florida, via Pittsburgh, went into a fatal nose dive just a few minutes before landing at the Pittsburgh airport. All 132 people aboard perished in the crash, the reasons for which were not clear. The crew's frantic last words -- "Oh God Traffic emergency!" -- indicated trouble but were not specific. Investigators are hoping that flight data from the plane's black box will provide further clues...