[lbo-talk] For sports fans: how the Pittsburgh Pirates and Pittsburgh Stealers got named :)

Marvin Gandall marvgandall at videotron.ca
Sun Oct 29 10:06:04 PST 2006


"During the burst of industrialisation between the 1860s and 1920s that transformed America into the world's leading economic power, Pittsburgh led the way. It was the home of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Frick, George Westinghouse and Henry John Heinz, as well as Mellon."

(From the latest Economist)



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