I went to games at Three Rivers Stadium several times as a kid!
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There have been four warships named USS Pittsburgh to serve in the United States Navy, the first of which was an ironclad river gunboat during the Civil War, and the most recent of which was a Los Angeles-class nuclear fast attack submarine decommissioned three months ago.
PNC Park in Pittsburgh is where the Pirates currently play.
2001: PNC Park opened
1970-2000: Three Rivers Stadium was the Pirates’ previous home field. It opened after the 1970 All-Star Break.
1909-1970: Forbes Field preceded Three Rivers. The Pirates played at Forbes Field until 28 June 1970.
Forbes Field was named for John Forbes and Forbes Avenue (which was also named after John Forbes). John Forbes was a British Army General who served from 1729 to his death in 1759.
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Comment: I have been to 29 of the 30 MLB teams’ home stadiums*. IMO the best is Oracle Park in San Francisco, and second best is PNC Park. My bias is towards the SF Giants.
I’m only missing the Atlanta Braves.
I’m impressed! I’ve only been to 12 of the 30 home stadiums. I had a trip planned this summer to see three more, but that didn’t work out so well.
In play: The first World Series in the ‘modern’ era of baseball was played in 1903. The Boston Americans beat the Pittsburgh Pirates in a best-of-9 series, 5 games to 3. The Pirates won the 1925 series, lost the 1927 series, then won in 1960, 1971, and 1979. They have not been back to the Series since then.
Hopefully you can do that next season!
In play: On the Northeastern University campus in Boston there is a sculpture of home plate that marks where that World Series game was played and the spot where the Huntington Avenue Grounds was located. Huntington Avenue Grounds hosted four games in that World Series.
The Mall of America in Bloomington MN, which was built on the site of the old Metropolitan Stadium and former home of the Minnesota Twins baseball team, also features a plaque on the floor to represent the site of home plate in the original stadium.
In addition, there is a red-painted stadium chair mounted on the wall of the center concourse/amusement park area of the mall at the appropriate height off the ground and distance away from ‘home plate’ to commemorate the longest home run ever hit at Metropolitan Stadium — a 552-foot blast off the bat of Harmon Killebrew that landed in the second-deck seats on June 3rd, 1967.
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The war fought from 5 to 10 June 1967 between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria is known by several names: The Six Day War, The Setback (an-Naksah in Arabic), The War of 1967, the June War, the 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or the Third Arab–Israeli War.
On June 10, 1940, Italy declared war on both Great Britain and France; on that same day, Norway surrendered to Germany, two months after Germany began its invasion.
(Also on that same date, my mother was born, in a small town in northwestern Wisconsin, where my grandfather was working as a lumberjack.)
On the 4th of June 1940, Forbes Field in Pittsburgh hosted its first night game. The hometown Pirates beat the Boston Braves 14-2.
Technical query-- Does anybody know what went horribly wrong in post 1717, blasting everyone in the face with that intrusive Youtube graphic? None of my other YT likks are doing that.
No worries, jtur88. If you put in a carriage return after the last thing that you type, and then insert a link, a graphic will appear. If you don’t put in a carriage return, but just have the link as part of the same paragraph as what you’ve written, no graphic appears.
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In November 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat of New York, became the first President of the United States elected to a third term. A popular GOP campaign pin that year read, “Washington wouldn’t, Grant couldn’t, Roosevelt shouldn’t.”
In November 1940, Big Nose Kate died at the age of 89. She was the Hungarian-born prostitute and common-law wife of Old West gunfighter Doc Holliday. Doc Holliday, 2 years younger than “Big Nose Kate”, had died in November 1887 at the age of 36.
The Gabor sisters, Magda, Zsa Zsa, and Eva, were born in Budapest, Hungary. They moved to the United States in hopes of starting film careers.
Between them, they had 20 marriages. Magda was married six times; Zsa Zsa was married nine times; Eva, the slacker in the group was only married five times.
George Sanders, a British actor, was married to both Zsa Zsa and Magda. (Presumably not a the same time…)
Zsa Zsa Gabor’s ninth and final husband, Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, paid Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt to adopt him in 1980, when he was an adult – he was one of several dozen adults whom Marie-Auguste adopted as a way to make money.
Frederic, in turn, has made a career of selling “knighthoods,” and while he was married to Zsa Zsa, the two of them adopted at least 10 adult men in exchange for payment.
Zsa Zsa Gabor was crowned as Miss Hungary in 1936 and, five years later in 1941, escaped Hungary three years before it was taken over by the Nazis. Married nine times, she was divorced seven times, and one marriage was annulled.
She wrote in her autobiography, “All in all — I love being married. I love the companionship, I love cooking for a man (simple things like chicken soup and my special Dracula’s goulash from Hungary), and spending all my time with a man. Of course I love being in love — but it is marriage that really fulfills me. But not in every case.”
In the recent Netflix series Unorthodox, a Satmar Jewish woman visiting Berlin goes for a swim with friends in a lake not far from the site of the Wannsee Conference, where Nazis planned the Final Solution.
In Berlin, the city pays a team of stadtjäger , or trained street hunters, to pick off nuisance wild boar within city limits. They have shot thousands, but there are still roughly 3,000 in the German capital, populating the city’s green outlying enclaves and parks and venturing on to streets at night. Other European cities with a wild boar problem include Barcelona and Rome. The animals can carry salmonella, brucellosis, campylobacter, hepatitis E and African swine fever.
The term ‘wild boar’ is typically used to describe Eurasian wild boar from Europe or Asia. ‘Feral hogs’, common in North America, originated from domestic breeds but have been wild for many generations. It is estimated that as many as six million feral hogs live in the United States.
Uncle Earl’s Hog Dog Trials is a n event held annually in Winnfield, Louisiana, featuring dogs that are bred to run down wild hogs. The event is named after Earl Long, a former governor and native of Winfield, and avid hog hunter. The same Governor Earl Long who was played by Paul Newman in the film “Blaze”
Paul is a small town on Cape Verde, a volcanic island in the eastern Atlantic Ocean roughly 500 miles west of Dakar, Senegal and Nouakchott, Mauritania. Cape Verde is a horseshoe-shaped archipelago of ten islands, nine of which are populated, and eight islets.
Cape Canaveral, located near the center of Florida’s Atlantic coast, is best known for being at the epicenter of the American space rocket launches. The name, which was derived from the Spanish word meaning ‘reed field’, dates from the 16th century and is believed to be the third-oldest surviving European place name in the United States.