Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pirates realizing their full potential. Which is not to say that anyone played over his head in 1960, but that with the exception of Bob Skinner, Roberto Clemente, and Dick Groat, the Pirates are good only at their best. An injury in May, a slump in July, and Pittsburgh will find itself far off the pace...
...Francisco, Giant Pitcher Mike McCormick, who boasted the best earned-run average in the National League last season, threw one pitch to the Pittsburgh Pirates' Bill Virdon, watched it sail over the fence for a home run. McCormick headed for the showers one out later, the losing pitcher...
...sportswriters are right, one thing will be the same. Filing their annual predictions, they picked the Yankees and the Pittsburgh Pirates to repeat...
...develop a successful adult career, Pianist Janis had to overcome that most irksome of musical burdens-a reputation as a prodigy. His Russian-born parents brought him up in Pittsburgh, where his father, who owned a sporting-goods store, went by the name of Yanks, a contraction of the name Yankilevitch. When he was five, Byron started to play a toy xylophone like an old hand, soon afterward was playing piano on the radio. At 13, Byron Yanks, who shortly became Byron Janis, left home for good to study with a succession of teachers, finally becoming the only pupil...
...start breaking even and by next year to show some earnings. In Venezuela alone, the company expects to get a quarter of what its process saves the government, an estimated royalty of more than $1 to $1.50 per ton. Says Chambers: "We won't put Gary or Pittsburgh out of business. But we can use materials they can't, and we are heading a trend to build little mills close to raw materials and the markets...