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Retired Norwin High School teacher Leslie “Les” M. Harvath had a lifelong love for the game of baseball, from playing on a Little League championship team to starring for the Norwin Knights and Duquesne Dukes that led to a tryout with the Pittsburgh Pirates and then imparting his knowledge of the game by coaching his alma mater for more than 20 years.
He loved to play baseball and lived just “400 feet from home plate” at his neighborhood ballfield, said his son, Schuyler Harvath of Myrtle Beach, S.C.