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07-13-2011, 09:31 PM #1
Re: Show off your Pittsburgh Pirates items!
Thanks for all that info. I've had fun researching it as well. I wish I could have grown up in a city that had the amount of baseball history as Pittsburgh. I grew up in the suburbs of Seattle, so my first baseball memories were of the Kingdome - nothing to brag about.
I'll bet you're right about the concrete facade. I would love to find other pictures of the HR markers at Three Rivers. Now that the stadium is gone, I'm not sure where to look. Since you are a Pirates fan and are versed in this kind of stuff, where would you recommend that I look?
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07-13-2011, 10:04 PM #2
Re: Show off your Pittsburgh Pirates items!
Ironically, the closet stadium I now live near is Seattle's Safeco field, about 3 hours north from me! I will tell you, it was not easy finding the data I found on those HR markers. I looked at ALOT of old stadium sites and PA historical sites for information. Sadly, for a place that was around for 30 years, they sure did not document Three Rivers very well. I am just as guilty, because I guess you assume it will always be there. I wish I had saved my programs from my youth, but they have been long gone due to way too many moves. You might start there, with old programs and media guides. They may be of some use and I am sure fairly cheap.
I did, however, dig up some photos I took at games from my youth.
The first one is Rick Rhoden talking on the mound to Tony Pena, I would say 1983-especially judging by the clothes in the crowd!
The second is of a Steelers-Chiefs game in 1984, where Pittsburgh had a FG blocked for a TD, Kickoff and punt returns on them as well. Sad...
The third photo is of a much younger me before the 1992 NLCS vs ATL, and the Buccos did win that one!
The last shoot is actually awesome, because I had the wherewithal to take a photo of the outside of Three Rivers Stadium!
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07-16-2011, 04:21 PM #3
Re: Show off your Pittsburgh Pirates items!
Just wanted to write that the FIRST PLACE PIRATES take on the Astros today! It just feels good to write that again, 14 years later!
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07-17-2011, 07:23 PM #4
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07-25-2011, 08:00 PM #5
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Hey Frik,
Well, I found out, unbeknownst to me, my Dad still had a saved a program from one of the games we attended in '86! I earlier showed picts of inside Three Rivers from that game below, against Philly. Sadly, they do not even talk about the HR markers-even then! I did however, find out a fact I never realized: Jason Thompson of the Buccos was only the 7th player in MLB history (then) to hit 100 or more HRs in each league. Wow, how times have changed.
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