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Memories of Past Glory Sep 30, 2006
By Theo Logos
Pittsburgh Pirates fans have suffered through an agonizingly extended season of discontent - one that encompasses fourteen consecutive years of losing more games than they have won. As October approaches, we watch the excitement that other fans in other cities experience, and watch our team hang up their spikes and go home - again. We wait for next year - a next year that never comes. As if we were in a bad dream from which we cannot wake, it is all the same, year after year; one excruciatingly long nightmare season. It's enough to drive a man to drink!
To keep off the sauce and chase away the baseball blues, I picked up `When the Bucs Won It All', the story of the 1979 World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates. It proved to be just the right tonic to put a smile back onto my face. The book was a quick read - it does not dwell endlessly on a game by game, blow by blow recreation of the season, but hits on all the memorable highlights. One thirty-four page chapter covers the regular season, and forty-six pages are devoted to the post season. It is not exhaustive coverage of that championship year, but is really all that is necessary to trigger the great memories in any fan that lived through it. Like any good baseball book, it includes a good selection of black and white photos and plenty of charts of statistics as well.
The bulk of the book is taken up by biographies of the players who made up the Pirates' "Family" that magic season. Every player who was on the Pirates major league roster at any time during that season, as well as the manager and coaching staff, is covered. A brief history of their careers prior to the '79 season is given, a recap of what that player did during the '79 season and post season follows, and finally, what they did and what became of them after 1979 is related. Some of these bios are loaded with interesting information. For both Bert Blyleven and Dave Parker, the authors explore their respective cases for possible enshrinement in The Hall of Fame. In relief pitcher Enrique Romo's bio, they talk about his mysterious disappearance from Pittsburgh and baseball after the 1982 season, and the rumor that he had a relationship with a woman involved with a mob figure who told him never to return. To date, Romo has never appeared at any of the '79 Pirates reunions or autograph signings. I found this section most appealing, and more interesting than a simple blow by blow recreation of the season.
Any Pirate fan who remembers "the Family" and that magical '79 season will enjoy this book. It may have a broader appeal as well for those interested in that era of baseball, as it provides a snapshot of how the game was played at the dawn of the free agent era, when relief pitchers were first coming into prominence, and the game was in a major state of transition.
Theo Logos
Jim Rooker Oct 08, 2009
By Ray Holt
"theRVer [dot] com"
I saw the game and Jim Rooker was wonderful in turning around the 4th game and eventually letting the Pirates will it all. Howard Cossell "ate crow" just about every inning.
Ray Holt
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My boyfriend loved his present! May 12, 2007
By K. Taggart
This was a gift for my boyfriend's birthday. He hasn't read it yet, but is looking forward to it. He was really excited when he saw it. Thanks.
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