UPDATE: So much here...not sure I have as many rather mythical connections to any other city as I do Pittsburg, and I was never there until this past summer. My daughter and her girlfriend flew in on Saturday, my son, his girlfriend, Gail and I on Friday. My brother and sister in law from Arizona was there a day early and our sister Susan and her family a day earlier still in celebration the wedding of her son Chis and his new wife Marie. It was a Royal Wedding in all regards...rare to get so many family and close friends together for 48 hours of fun and celebration. Walked to the Andy Warhol Museum, the Pirates new baseball park and the new 3 Rivers stadium, Heinz Field. There was a big C&W concert at 4 and the tailgating very strong at 10am. Great walk. Statues of Bill Mazerowski and Roberto Clemente and of course others. Riding the bus to the church through the neighborhoods of Pittsburg, where those hard working people root as hard for the Steelers as we do for the Patriots.....people just being people.
So Roberto Clemente is a hero right? I remember that he was an excellent ballplayer...a very smooth rightfielder with a great arm and speed. Next I hear he died in plane crash delivering humanitarian need to earthquake victims of Nicaragua.......the same Nicaragua that years later my daughter Amy decides to make her home for some four month, but I digress. I need to look up his baseball stats and more about the earthquake and circumstances of his death. From the baseball and very tangential perspective, he was their city's Tony Conigliaro.... but I digress again.
Pittsburg more......I hired an Director of Resident Services back in the day.....and he was born and raised in Pittsburg...great guy too. Our neighbors in Ct---the wife was from Pittsburg....fun and good lady she was.
So I ask, who was pitching for the Yankees when Mazerowski hit the series winning homer? My guess was Ralph Terry....and the answer is ......Ralph Terry. How can I remember that and not remember my work keys in the morning? How does that even work?
Patriots-Steelers in the recent ten years.....some great games there I would say.
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