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Category : Football
Languages : en
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University of Pittsburgh Football Team Postcard Photograph
Author: University of Pittsburgh Football Squad Postcard Photograph
Author: University of Pittsburgh Football Vault
Author: Sam SciulloPublisher: Whitman Publishing
ISBN: 9780794826536
Category : Football
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Greetings from Pittsburgh
Author: Ralph AshworthPublisher: Vestal Press
ISBN: 9781879511453
Category : Pittsburgh (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tour historic Pittsburgh through black and white postcards from 1880-1918, the Golden Age of postcard production.
Anthony Kambic Photographs
Author: Anthony KambicPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This addition contains photographs of Pittsburgh Steelers, Pirates, Penguins, and the University of Pittsburgh football team. Also included are photographs of a Super Bowl celebration. Some of the images have been identified. Many are duplicates.
Pittsburgh's Historic Ballparks
Author: Mark T. FatlaPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 146710910X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Pittsburgh has an incredible baseball history with great players, teams, and historic moments, but few realize that Pittsburgh has often been in the lead in ballpark design and development. Photographs chronicle the nine ballparks that hosted major league baseball in Pittsburgh between 1876 and the present, including the Negro Leagues. Here are the design and construction phases, the major changes as parks expanded and aged, and eventually, their demolition. Here also are the monuments, details, and the surrounding neighborhoods that became part of the fan experience, along with rare glimpses of behind-the-scenes areas. The great players, teams, and moments are not the focus. There are many other books to tell their stories. Here, those players, teams, and moments are seen only as they illustrate the look and condition of the ballparks themselves.
Popular Photography
Author: Forbes Field
Author: David FinoliPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738598321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
In 1909, Pittsburgh Pirates president Barney Dreyfuss began construction on a new facility for his team in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. Dreyfuss decided to call his palace - the first concrete and steel facility built in the National League - Forbes Field, after the British general John Forbes, a hero in the French and Indian War. Opened on June 20, 1909, Forbes Field was a hit from the onset; the venue hosted large crowds that came to watch the Pirates win in their first World Series against the Detroit Tigers that year. As the years went on, Forbes Field became synonymous with the greatest sports memories in the city's history. Patrons saw the trials and tribulations of the Steelers as well as some of the greatest collegiate football teams in the history of the game. The University of Pittsburgh won three collegiate football national championships, and Duquesne University and Carnegie Tech also fielded many winning teams while calling Forbes Field home. Alongside football, boxing was a constant event at the famed facility, hosting some of the most memorable pugilists this city has ever produced. Above all else, it was a baseball mecca. While the field is no longer in use, the wall remains intact, reminding Pittsburghers of the field's rich history.
Johnny Unitas
Author: Lou SahadiPublisher: Triumph Books
ISBN: 1623681456
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Offering an in-depth look into the private life behind one of the most important athletes of the 20th century, this comprehensive biography of Johnny Unitas explores the man who made the quarterback position the crux of a football team's offense and was an icon to millions of fans across the country. From his upbringing near the Monongahela River and becoming the Golden Arm to his retirement and battle with numerous physical ailments, this book reveals how he was affected by his boss's bets that were as much as $1 million per game and his livid anger at Colts management over his trade to Chargers. It also includes more than 15,000 words of never-before-published commentary directly from Unitas himself about his career, fame, moments of great personal pride, and others he'd rather forget."
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity.
Author: Jan M. ZiolkowskiPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 178374524X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life. Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest in The Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today. Volume 3: The American Middle Ages hinges upon two figures influenced by the juggler: Henry Adams, scion of Presidents and distinguished cultural historian whose works contributed to the rise of medievalism in America during the Gilded Age, and Ralph Adams Cram, the architect whose vision of Gothic accounts directly or indirectly for the campuses of West Point, Princeton, Yale, Chicago, Notre Dame, and many other universities across America. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity is a rich case study for the reception of the Middle Ages in modernity. Spanning centuries and continents, the medieval period is understood through the lens of its (post)modern reception in Europe and America. Profound connections between the verbal and the visual are illustrated by a rich trove of images, including book illustrations, stained glass, postage stamps, architecture, and Christmas cards. Presented with great clarity and simplicity, Ziolkowski's work is accessible to the general reader, while its many new discoveries will be valuable to academics in such fields and disciplines as medieval studies, medievalism, philology, literary history, art history, folklore, performance studies, and reception studies.