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Jan 26, 2021 · The damage in the second inning could have been worse, but, as Bill Nunn of the Pittsburgh Courier recounted: “[A]n unusual double play allowed Lewis to escape further damage in this inning. Bill Powell hit a ground ball to James Gilliam on second.
May 7, 2014 · Bill Nunn Jr., a black sports reporter for The Pittsburgh Courier, could not sit in the press box at Forbes Field three years after Jackie Robinson started for the Brooklyn Dodgers. But on a...
- Andrew Conte
“The tiny, gray-haired matron for years has been house mother for Negro members of the Milwaukee Braves baseball team. ‘I’ve treated them like my own sons,’ she said. “At Mrs. Gibson’s place, the Negro players have basic comfort and ‘eat high on the hog’ as the saying goes.
Dec 13, 2022 · In an interview with Bill Nunn Jr. of the Courier, Pittsburgh’s most prominent African American newspaper, Clemente predicted that the Pirates would win in six games. 9 That was all fans got to hear from their favorite player before the Series began. On October 5, Pirates ace Vern Law gave up a single to Tony Kubek to open the 1960 World Series.
Jun 18, 2021 · Twenty-five games into the 1925 season, the independent Homestead Grays had won 23 games, lost one and tied one according to The Pittsburgh Courier. Bill Nunn of The Courier called the club, “Pittsburgh’s one winning ballclub,” and regionally the “greatest drawing card in baseball.”
Feb 12, 2017 · The central figure in Conte’s book is the late Bill Nunn Jr., the scout who discovered black athletes who became key players in the Steelers’ Super Bowl years. Nunn joined the Steelers...
