Thomas Tull, a minority owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, paid nearly $1 million for a game-worn uniform and the baseball bat Bill Mazeroski used to hit a walk-off home run for the Pirates against the ...

Paul Guggenheimer Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020 8:14 a.m. | Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020 8:14 a.m. Wayne Stewart remembers running home from school in Donora on Oct. 13, 1960. He was 9 years old and was hoping to ...

The leadoff hitter and Gold Glove center fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 1960 World Series champions who became a major-league manager of four teams, Bill Virdon was a baseball lifer known as a ...

PITTSBURGH — Dick Groat remembers the moment he realized the Pirates could beat the Yankees in the 1960 World Series. “I can remember being at shortstop in the ninth inning of the first game,” Groat ...

Three pairs of eyes looked skyward, watching the baseball rise off Bill Mazeroski's bat toward the Oakland sky, over the wall and into history. The latest and possibly most colorful recollection of ...

PITTSBURGH,None — For one shining day, Bill Mazeroski and the Pittsburgh Pirates were going like '60 again. The ballpark was missing. So were the New York Yankees, not that they were needed. Mazeroski ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Oct. 13, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. Even as some Americans were watching the plane ...

On Oct. 13, 1960, Bill Mazeroski hit one of the most famous home runs in Major League history. It was the bottom of the ninth in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, and Mazeroski smashed Ralph Terry’s ...

Bing Crosby didn’t know it, but when he took off for Paris on October 12, 1960, he left us all with a wonderful Christmas present. Bing was part owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates and fearful that his ...

Bob Friend, who learned how to pitch on lowly Pittsburgh Pirate teams of the early 1950s, then became one of the National League’s finest right-handers and an anchor of the team that stunned the ...

Pittsburgh Pirates legend Dick Groat has died at age 92, the team announced Thursday. Groat was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, went to high school in Swissvale (a Pittsburgh suburb) and then ...

Joe L. Brown, the general manager whose shrewd trading and expert rebuilding of the Pittsburgh Pirates' farm system resulted in two World Series championships, died after an extended illness. He was ...