The 1970s were a revival of sorts for the Pirates and Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell are revered not only for their achievements on the field but also for their character and contributions ...
Those 117 gentlemen should have joined Mariano Rivera as unanimous selections to the None of them did. If anything, I undercounted. I do allow for some honest difference of opinion. Nor am I including ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] Year-by-year inductees to the Major ...
Veale, who stood 6-foot-6 and wore glasses, played on good Pirate teams; his teammates included the outfielders Willie Stargell and Roberto Clemente and the second baseman Bill Mazeroski ...
Pirates teammate Willie Stargell said after one 1966 Veale start that “I could see the blue flame rising from his fastball way out in left field,” while Cardinals star Lou Brock once remarked ...
Year-by-year inductees to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame: BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America; TGE: Today’s Game Era (1998-present) committee; VC: Elected by ...
296 hitter, who shared the National League MVP with Willie Stargell in ’79 and won 11 consecutive Gold Gloves, is deserving of a Hall of Fame induction. While Cooperstown awaits ‘Mex,’ his ...
Baseball great who died in 2001 lived in Wilmington after marrying Margaret Weller-Stargell, twin sister of WECT broadcaster Frances Weller. The Willie Stargell Foundation, which helps fund kidney ...
Almost 50 years after his presumed death in Idi Amin’s Uganda, Pittsburgh basketball icon John Brisker remains a legend for ...
$1,500, C Rick Ferrell, St. Louis Browns 1926; SS Mickey Mantle, Yankees 1949; OF Billy Williams, Cubs 1956; 1B-OF Willie Stargell, Pirates 1958 Will Roki Sasaki eventually join Ohtani making uber ...
Willie Stargell hit two of them, in 1969 and 1973. The others were Mike Piazza in 1997, Mark McGwire in 1999, and Giancarlo Stanton in 2015. If most teams in baseball have their home dugout on the ...
Forty-five years after “Honeysuckle Rose,” Amy Irving is set to release an album of her interpretations of 10 Willie Nelson songs — all picks suggested to her by Nelson, who also contributes ...