Thrown those heavy coats over the costumes. Lets get right to ashton. Amazing weather looking at this morning. Good morning to you, allen and brit. If october were to end today we would be tied for the fifth warmest october on record. But with warmer weather coming our way for tomorrow and friday, i think our ranking will be a little higher than that by the time the 31st rolls around. This morning, temperatures arent quiet as mild as yesterday. Most of us in the 50s of the 60s. Instead 40s for most neighborhoods including 41 in brighten. Just make sure your kids are prepared for a while in the air this morning. Later on very nice. 5day forecast coming up. Lets check the traffic. Never a good sign when theyre flashing lights on the cdot camera. This is i70 as you get past river valley. Were watching that in town and starting to see the drive load up. Were going to look at that two weeks out from the election close to the end of the political commercials and today two candidates have big
King of Sluggers: Josh Gibson’s Legacy
A century has passed since the founding of the Negro Leagues, and the great-grandson of the game’s most feared yet forgotten hitter is fighting for the recognition of Pittsburgh’s Black baseball history.
November 11, 2020
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CHUCK BEARD
He has a set of hands that could wrap around the trunk of a Southern Live Oak the state tree of his native Georgia and a pair of forearms that could snap one in half.
It’s sometime in the 1930s in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh when he steps up to the plate and bashes a baseball that clears the ivy-veiled outfield walls of Forbes Field and soars into oblivion. The following day his Pittsburgh Crawfords are playing in Philadelphia, and from out of nowhere, a baseball falls from the heavens and lands into the glove of a surprised center fielder. The umpire points to the twenty-something kid named Josh Gibson and shouts, Yer out yesterday in Pittsburgh.