pittsburgh

"A simple but fact-packed overview of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team, covering their origins, their home stadium, their mascot, famous players and coaches, and well-known plays throughout the team's history"--Amazon.

Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson?s famed plays about noble, but doomed, working-class citizens. But this community once had an impact on American history that rivaled the far larger black worlds of Harlem and Chicago. It published the most widely read black newspaper in the country, urging black voters to switch from the Republican to the Democratic Party, and then rallying black support for World War II. It fielded two of the greatest baseball teams of the Negro Leagues and introduced Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Pittsburgh was the childhood home of jazz pioneers Billy Strayhorn, Billy Eckstine, Earl Hines, Mary Lou Williams, and Erroll Garner; Hall of Fame slugger Josh Gibson?and August Wilson himself. Some of the most glittering figures of the era were changed forever by the time they spent in the city, from Joe Louis and Satchel Paige to Duke Ellington and Lena Horne.

Presents an adaptation of "Haunted Pittsburgh" which looks at one of America's most haunted cities, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Looks at twelve tales of hauntings on Michigan's west coast.

Encompassing the extraordinary history of Major League Baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates, this photo-laden narrative underscores significant players, team accomplishments, and noteworthy moments that will stand out in young sports fans' minds.

The Pittsburgh Steelers are a legendary NFL team. Their six Super Bowl wins are tied for the most in league history. Read about the team's history, great players, and plans for winning another Super Bowl.

When Jeremiah Henderson and his girlfriend head for New York with high hopes for a better life, they never imagined they would become involved in a get-rich-quick scheme that forces them to flee the city, leaving behind a trail of violence.

"A . . . novel about a bi-racial man whose world is turned upside down when his best friend is released from prison, raising not only his own but old family demons and forcing him to reckon with the past he only thought he knew"--OCLC.

The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed herself to be. She learned the truth of her paternity: that her father was a black man. And she learned the truth about her own identity: mixed race. And so Sarah began the difficult and absorbing journey of changing her identity from white to black. In this memoir, Sarah details the story of the discovery of her identity, how she overcame depression to come to terms with this identity, and, perhaps most importantly, asks: why? Her entire family and community had conspired to maintain her white identity. The supreme discomfort her white family and community felt about addressing issues of race--her race--is a microcosm of race relationships in America. A black woman who lived her formative years identifying as white, Sarah's story is a kind of Rachel Dolezal in reverse, though her 'passing' was less intentional than conspiracy. This memoir is an examination of the cost of being black in America, and how one woman threw off the racial identity she'd grown up with, in order to embrace a new one.