Sweet 60: The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates

April 20, 2013 by Bob Hurte · Leave a Comment

For those who have known me for longer than fifteen minutes, learn that I am a ‘Die hard’ Pittsburgh Pirates fan. The 1971 team is my favorite Pirates’ team of all-time. But I have a strange relationship with the 1960 version. One might describe it as destiny, like the Pirates beating the New York Yankees […]

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B(oston) Is For Bandwagon

August 1, 2010 by Andrew Tuttle · Leave a Comment

While attending a Red Sox/Mariners game recently I saw a shirt that said, B is for Bandwagon. After laughing, I couldn’t disagree with that statement as probably 50 percent of the fans at a game 3000 miles away from Fenway Park were there for the Red Sox. And I was one of those fans. But […]

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