Publisher's Synopsis
Summer afternoons at Forbes Field, playoff Sundays with the Steelers. winter nights at the Igloo cheering for Mario and the Penguins - this book captures all that and more. With stories from sports fans, historians and former athletes it mixes personal experiences with team histories to capture the full range of what it means to be a sports fan. This volume can be read from cover to cover or by dipping into it at random. It includes chapters on the ill-fated Pittsburgh Pipers, who won the American Basketball Association's first championship, then folded four years later; the ups and downs of the Pittsburgh Pirates; boxing's illustrious past in the Iron City; Johnny Unitas, Joe Namath, Jim Kelly, Joe Montana, Dan Marino and other legends of western Pennsylvania high school football.
