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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hall of Famer Bill Mazeroski was unable to attend the first public screening of the 1960 World Series Game 7 telecast due to an undisclosed illness. The Pirates issued a statement saying the ...

Dick Groat, one of the greatest two-sport athletes in Pittsburgh's history -- which included winning a Most Valuable Player award for the 1960 Pirates, having his number retired by Duke basketball and ...

For Pittsburgh Pirates fans, Bill Mazeroski’s home run to win Game 7 of the 1960 World Series has been immortalized for decades. Now, on a national level, the Library of Congress has done that ...

CADIZ, OH (WTRF) – On October 13th, 1960, Pirates’ Bill Mazeroski hits a walk off homerun in game 7 of the World Series, and 85 years later, athletes from Harrison Central High School gathered at the ...

Bob Oldis, whose brief playing career with the Washington Senators, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Philadelphia Phillies was highlighted by a seven-game World Series victory over the New York Yankees in 1960 ...

He insisted he was better at basketball, but as a shortstop he won a batting championship and an M.V.P. Award and was a five-time All-Star. By Richard Goldstein He was an All-American basketball ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. Even as some Americans were watching the plane carrying the volatile Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev exit out of U.S.