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The Whistling Irishman: Danny Murtaugh Remembered (Hardcover)
RNI ID: 9781935592990
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Danny Murtaugh's biography. Written by his granddaughter Colleen, The Whistling Irishman tells how Danny clawed his way from poverty to become a two-time World Series champ. It features stories from his teammates, players, family, and friends. Whether or not you knew him, the story is bound to inspire you.
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Charles J. Connick: His Education and His Windows in and near Pittsburgh (Softcover)
RNI ID: 0978828437

 

When Charles Connick (1875-1945) died, The New York Times reported that he was “considered the world’s greatest contemporary craftsman in stained glass.” Connick spent 22 of his first 32 years living in Pittsburgh, and it was there that he learned and first practiced the art and craft of stained glass window design and fabrication.
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Ruanaidh: The story of Art Rooney and His Clan (Hardcover)
RNI ID: 0981476023
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"Ruanaidh" follows to its conclusion the extraordinary life of Art Rooney, Sr. "The Chief." The strange-looking title (pronounced Ru-ah-nee) is the Gaelic word for Rooney. Candid personality portraits of almost everybody in the Chief's wide orbit are mingled with tales from Art Rooney Jr's own high school and college football playing days, from his time as a failed drama student in New York, from his six months of boot camp training with the Marines, and from his subsequent career as personnel director of his father's football team, the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Ruanaidh: The story of Art Rooney and His Clan (Softcover)
RNI ID: 0981476031
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"Ruanaidh" follows to its conclusion the extraordinary life of Art Rooney, Sr. "The Chief." The strange looking title (pronounced Ru-ah-nee) is the Gaelic word for Rooney. Candid personality portraits of almost everybody in the Chief's wide orbit are mingled with tales from Art Rooney, Jr's own high school and college football playing days, from his time as a failed drama student in New York, from his six months of boot camp training with the Marines, and from his subsequent career as personnel director of his father's football team, the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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A Patrician of Ideas: A Biography of A.W. Schmidt (Softcover)
RNI ID: 0916670244

 

As scholars continue to delve into the history of Pittsburgh, there will be an increasing realization of the role Adolph Schmidt played in the Renaissance of the 1950s and, through his management of the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, of the development of numerous institutions, most notably the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh .... But in a curious way, his most lasting legacy may be in the realm of ideas. For Schmidt was more than an old-fashioned country-club 'patrician' He was a man of ideas who worked assiduously with others to attempt to bring them to fruition.
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Keep Tryst: The Walkers of Pittsburgh & The Sewickley Valley (Hardcover)
RNI ID: 0916670236

 

AS THEIR FORTUNES GREW, Pittsburgh's prominent Walker family maintained an existing family partnership which manu­ factured soaps and toilet products, and expanded by investing into a widening circle of new business ventures.

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With Love and Pride: Portraits of a Pittsburgh Family (Hardcover)
RNI ID: 1886348103
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Pittsburgh born and bred journalist Jim O'Brien likes to write about his family, particularly the women in his family. This book is a collection of stories he has written about his mother, his mother-in-law, his wife and their daughters, their granddaughter and a beloved dog.
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The CHIEF: Art Rooney and his Pittsburgh Steelers (Hardcover)
RNI ID: 1886348065
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Art Rooney was the most beloved sports figure in Pittsburgh history. The owner and patriarch of the Pittsburgh Steelers was admired and respected by all who knew him. He was referred to as "Mr. Rooney". His friends and family called him "The Chief".
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Baseball's Best Kept Secret (Hardcover)
RNI ID: 0964931168
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Al Oliver's story is one of an individual working within, and for the betterment of, a family, a community, and in the context of professional baseball career, a team. Al's story is about those teams... it is about the minor leagues he played in where he fell together with many young men being groomed for advancement to the Pittsburgh Pirates. One special event symbolized another aspect of his story. On a September evening in 1971, Al, along with eight of his teammates, made baseball history as they became the first all-Black starting lineup in the history of the game.
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Twin Killing: The Bill Mazeroski Story (Hardcover)
RNI ID: 0964901102
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The authorized biography of the greatest fielder in the history of baseball -Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski. Maz's trademark was his lightning quick pivot on the double play (a.k.a. Twin Killing).
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