Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orthopedists, art lovers have conventions too. They are international in scope, the occasion for awarding prizes, and come every two years, presumably on the theory that it takes at least that much time for things to change. Most prestigious of those conventions are the Venice Biennale (70 years old), Pittsburgh's Carnegie International (69 years old) and the relative newcomer, Brazil's São Paulo Bienal, started...
Ever since he broke in as a bandy legged minor-league outfielder 55 years ago, somebody or other has been suggesting that baseball could get along fine without Casey Stengel's services. During his playing days, in Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Boston, Philadelphia and New York, he was variously known as "Billiard Ball Stengel" and "Casey the Clown" for 1) his hardheadedness in doing things his way, and 2) his penchant for practical jokes. There was the time, for instance, when he tipped his cap to the crowd, and out flew a sparrow. Such antics made it easy to forget...
...Angeles Dodgers might have been back in Brooklyn the way they were playing. Sandy Koufax, the National League's top pitcher (with 21 victories), had not won a game in three weeks. The Dodgers had lost seven out of their last 13 games; last week the Pittsburgh Pirates edged them 3-2 and 2-1 in a doubleheader-beating Koufax and Don Drysdale. So at week's end there were the Los Angeles Bums-leading the league...
...only real smile around belonged to Pittsburgh Pirates' Manager Harry Walker. Sure, his top pitcher, Vernon Law (record: 16-9), had a sore elbow, and his top slugger, Willie Stargell (92 RBIs), was limping around on an injured knee. But the fifth-place Pirates had won ten out of their last 13 games-including four from the Giants, three from the Braves and two from the Dodgers. Insisted Walker: "With any kind of break, we'll win the pennant." Well, they might at that-since everybody else seems to be trying to lose...
Died. Paul ("Big Poison") Waner, 62, one of baseball's greatest hitters, a bat-boy-sized (153 Ibs.) lefthander who went for singles, not homers, and in 20 years in the majors, 15 with the Pittsburgh Pirates, sprayed out 3,152 hits for a .333 average, before retiring in 1945 to occasional coaching jobs-and a niche in the Hall of Fame; of pulmonary emphysema; in Sarasota, Fla. The Big Poison nickname was to distinguish him from his brother and fellow Pirate Lloyd ("Little Poison"), whom he outweighed...