One of my favorite moments covering baseball turned in by one of my favorite players, Benny Distefano, to cover/ Even the umpire was confused in giving him a new baseball

HBD 🎂 to the former Pirate and Shaler man Art Howe!

Happy Birthday, Joey Bart 🎂

Happy Birthday wishes to Hall of Fame manager Jim Leyland. He led the Pittsburgh Pirates to three straight N.L. East division titles (1990-92) and ranks third all-time with 851 wins in a Pittsburgh uniform. He was inducted into both the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ and the Pirates Hall of Fame in 2024.

1993 Leaf NHL Hockey

12/15: Fryman/Money-Bunning, Brain-Willis, Olivares- Francis/Savage & Rizzo Deals, Catcher Crowd; Matt-Jeff-Don & Vic Sign, Staffs, Rule 5 Loses 5, Hanny Goes, SAG; HBD Joey, Jim L, Art, Bucky, Jim N & JJ oldbucs.blogspot.com

Happy Birthday, Hunter Barco 🎂

Join us in wishing Hall of Fame manager Jim Leyland a happy 81st birthday! 🥳

A very happy 81st birthday to Jimmy Leyland, a Hall of Fame manager and a Hall of Fame person

Happy Birthday to Hall of Fame skipper, Jim Leyland!

DYK: Whit’s father is Bill Merrifield, who was briefly a #Pirates farmhand. Bill was acquired from the Angels as part of the Johnny Ray deal. He played 3 games for AAA Vancouver in 1987, and was an invite to 1988 Spring Training. His Spring highlight came on 3/1 when he

Clearly this guy doesn’t want to win

HBD 🎂 12/15/1944 Jim Leyland! “You don't tug on superman's cape You don't spit into the wind You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger And you don't mess around with Jim” #LetsGoBucs 🏴‍☠️ #Pittsburgh #Pirates

1967 - Pgh traded for RHP Jim Bunning, sending the Phillies Ps Woodie Fryman, Bill Laxton & Harold Clem w/IF Don Money. Bunning, who the Pirates hoped would put them over the top, stayed for 1-1/2 seasons, slashing 14-23/3.84. At 37, his tank was running low & he was moved to LA.

OTD 40 years ago…. Louis Lipps breaks Franco’s franchise record for TD’s in a season Lipps scores his 15th TD, breaking Harris’ 1976 mark. Fast Willie later broke Lipps’ record with 16 TD’s in 2006. Lipps did it by running for a TD, returning 2 punts for TD’s, and catching at

The Detroit Tigers used their first-round draft pick on Kirk Gibson in 1978. The man who met Kirk Gibson at the airport in Florida, was the mustachioed 33-year-old Mgr. of the Class 'A', Lakeland Tigers. Almost as soon as Kirk Gibson settled into the passenger seat of Leyland`s

HBD 🎂 Skip! They called Jim Leyland “Humperdink” because of his humpty-dumpty swing as a minor leaguer, and because after games as manager of the Evansville Triplets, he would sometimes grab a mic 🎤 and sing with a band in Evansville’s Time Out Lounge. #LetsGoBucs #Pirates

Info is from the courtesy of Ray Petelin . I was in attendance for every one of these games. I won’t be there tonight tho.

Happy Birthday to former #WhiteSox third base coach #JimLeyland! Here is my Sox-centric blog on the Hall-of-Famer 👇 soxnerd.wordpress.com/2023/12/28/a-w…

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