Tag: Pittsburgh Pirates
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The Final Days of Roberto Clemente
A Hall of Famer’s Last Mission Became His Greatest Act of Humanity By Bill Coleman On a warm autumn afternoon in 1972, baseball fans watched one of the game’s greatest players achieve a milestone that seemed to seal a perfect career. Just three months later, he would be gone. The story of Roberto Clemente is…
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Celebrity Baseball Spotlight Series: Mario Cuomo
As part of our ongoing series of celebrities (which we have extended to politicians for this piece) that played either major or minor league baseball, we now present Mario Cuomo, who was the 52nd governor of New York, serving three terms from 1983 to 1994. In addition, Cuomo was previously the lieutenant governor from 1979…