Oct 17, 2022
Pittsburgh-native sports historian (and previous
Episode 242 guest) Dave Finoli ("Where Pittsburgh Played: Oakland’s
Historic Sports Venues")
returns to the pod for a deep dive into the notable histories of
the Steel City's important first generation of modern-day sports
venues.
We dig
into some of the memorable (and many not-so) professional teams and
leagues that called the city's Oakland neighborhood home, in places
like: Pitt Stadium
(NFL football's Steelers); the Duquesne
Gardens (the early NHL Pirates & numerous minor-league
hockey clubs; the BAA basketball Ironmen); and of course, the
legendary Forbes Field - which not only housed
baseball's Pirates, but also the same-named (pre-Steelers) sister
football franchise, two WWII-era NFL contractions (1943's
"Steagles" & 1944's "Card-Pitt"), the Negro Leagues' iconic
Homestead Grays, and even the 1967 one-and-only season of the NPSL
soccer Phantoms.
PLUS: we "send in" a special
collegiate nod to the still in-use
Fitzgerald Field House !
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