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PNC Park is a baseball stadium on the North Shore of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.It is the fifth location to serve as the ballpark of Major League Baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates. [8] [9] Opened during the 2001 MLB season, PNC Park sits along the Allegheny River with a view of the Downtown Pittsburgh skyline.
Polymath Park is a 130-acre (0.53 km 2) resort near Acme in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The site features four historic houses: two relocated houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and two houses designed by apprentice Peter Berndtson .
The statue, designed by artist Susan Wagner, stands outside PNC Park's right field gate. It depicts Mazeroski rounding second base, jumping for joy with his batting helmet in his right hand, after hitting the game-winning home run. Wagner modeled it after a photograph taken by James Klingensmith of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Bucs: The Story of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Lenexa, Kansas: Addax Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-886110-40-3. McCollister, John (2008). The good, the bad, and the ugly Pittsburgh Pirates: heart-pounding, jaw-dropping, and gut-wrenching moments from Pittsburgh Pirates history. Chicago: Triumph Books. ISBN 978-1-57243-982-5. Mendelson, Abby (2005).
Pittsburgh Associates was a consortium of the City of Pittsburgh and local businesses which owned the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1986 to 1996. It was spearheaded during a dark year for the ball club with national media focused on the Pittsburgh drug trials, where many former Pirates as well as other major leaguers were brought up on Federal drug charges for offenses through the early 1980s.
Denny McKnight, future owner and manager of the Pittsburgh Alleghenies, served as team manager in 1877. Following the American Civil War, the leading baseball clubs in Pittsburgh were the "Enterprise", "Olympic", and "Xantha" teams. They played at Union Park, was located in the city of Allegheny, before it became annexed into Pittsburgh in 1907 ...
Heidelberg Raceway was an American auto racing track which was built near Heidelberg, Pennsylvania in Scott Township, Allegheny County, approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) southwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It held weekly races and numerous special events between 1948 and 1973.
Riverside Park, located in Dawson Springs, Kentucky, was originally built in 1914 to serve as a spring training park for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1914 to 1917. Sometimes referred to as Tradewater Park , it is the only known baseball park in Kentucky to have hosted a major league team since the Louisville Colonels folded in 1899 .