Word: pittsburgh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...batters' equivalent of 300 victories is 3,000 hits, Carew's entry that same afternoon making a total of 16 names on this roster of saints. Since Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates died in a plane crash almost 13 years ago at 38, the approximate measure of a great hitter has become precise. Clemente had 3,000 hits exactly. That Carew, 39, would get the single for California against his old team, the Minnesota Twins, was another wonder of happenstance. But his shorter ration of the day's glory was predictable. When Carew said, "I'm just very glad...
...test. Beginning next month in the South and working North ahead of the polio season, the vaccine that Salk has devised and concocted will be shot into the arms of 500,000 to 1,000,000 youngsters ... In a typical vaccination program at Colfax School in Pittsburgh, jabbering youngsters trooped by classes to the kindergarten room where Dr. Salk's assistants had set up desks and chairs beside tables loaded with labeled test tubes, vaccine bottles and stacks of hypodermic needles ... Most children let out an "Oh!" or "Ow!" and marched off, self-consciously proud, to another room where...
...bandwagon kept gaining steam through January and February, the SI Sportsmen of the Year Award in the satchel, Schilling on FOX every night giving opinions on every issue from the Republican Party's the way to go to why the Steelers should cream the Patriots in Pittsburgh. (Curt bugged me more than a time or two during the off-season.) "Do you think that we're turning into one of those national teams? Like the Cowboys or Lakers or Yankees? I wonder how the Sox are playing to the folks in Kansas...
...define for Stan the meaning of the word "reigning"-as in Reigning World Champions. And I did not say, "Not only are we still baseball's champions, but the Pats are world champs till next winter, too, and they did it by going through Pittsburgh-in Pittsburgh (the Steelers are Stan's football team...
...slave wages," said Paul Chasshind, one of many pickets marching last week near an entrance to the Monessen plant. His co-workers point out that together they have given back $141 million in reduced pay and profit sharing over the past three years. Labor leaders fear that if Wheeling-Pittsburgh achieves its goals, other steelmakers will be inspired to seek their own concessions from workers. Said Don Caterino, a third-generation steelworker: "If we cave in, workers at other mills will get buried...