pittsburgh

In 1972, after his older brother is killed in a car crash, Peter Lee's mother is paralyzed by grief and his traditional Chinese father seems emotionally frozen--but Peter hopes that if he joins a Little League team in Pittsburgh he can reawaken the passion for baseball that all the members of his family used to share and bring them back to life.

After his older brother is killed in a car crash, Peter Lee's mother is paralyzed by grief and his traditional Chinese father seems emotionally frozen; but Peter hopes that if he joins a Little League team in Pittsburgh he can reawaken the passion for baseball that all the members of his family used to share.

Contains accounts of each game in the Pittsburgh Steelers' 2006 Super Bowl season, and includes statistics and color photographs.

Two young people attempt to break through the despair of back-alley life in post-war Pittsburgh and make their dreams come true in New York City.

Michael Chabon chronicles the experiences he had during his first postgraduation summer.

Michael Chabon chronicles the experiences he had during his first postgraduation summer.

Major league baseball has had its share of major league scandals: Shoeless Joe and the Black Sox (the fixed baseball game of 1919); the 1985 Pittsburgh drug trials; and the steroid era. This book tells the whole story, in all its details, of the Pittsburgh drug trials.

Provides information about elephants through a look at a calf born at the Pittsburgh Zoo, examining its early life, its parents, and elephant characteristics and behaviors; and discusses how zoos can help prevent elephant extinction.