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	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pittsburgh was briefly the seat of government for the short lived District of West Augusta, a Virginia county designed to compete with Pennsylvania's Westmoreland County, based in nearby Hannastown, which also claimed the region.
		Pittsburgh is located at the center of a fairly expansive set of river valleys, and much of the city's residential population is situated on or near the slopes of those valleys with certain neighborhoods (particularly south of the Monongahela) nearly inaccessible by car during the winter.
		Pittsburgh Public School teachers are paid well relative to their peers, ranking 17th in 2000-2001 among the 100 largest cities by population for the highest minimum salary offered to teachers with a BA ($34,300).
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	Pittsburgh Pirates : Community : Negro League Baseball
		The Pittsburgh Crawfords (lower photo courtesy of National Baseball Library, Copperstown, NY) were one of the most formidable teams of the mid-1930s.
		Pittsburgh in the past was headquarters for the Negro National League and the only city in the country with two Black Professional Teams, the Homestead Grays and the Pittsburgh Crawfords.
		Originally, the Pittsburgh Crawfords team was composed of amateurs from the sandlots of the city's Hill district.
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	Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Convention and Visitors Bureau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Pittsburgh Crawfords emerged from integrated neighborhoods in the Hill District and later were bankrolled by Gus Greenlee, owner of the Crawford Grill.
		Pittsburgh Courier editor and owner Robert L. Vann grew his newspaper into the largest circulating Black newspaper in the country, using its reach and reputation to crusade against discrimination and to document African-American social, political and cultural developments.
		Pittsburgh's African American community continued to thrive on a number of fronts and Pittsburgh born artists and entrepreneurs helped to make the Hill District the musical center during the golden age of jazz music.
	www.visitpittsburgh.com /sitelink/index.cfm?contentID=165 (1368 words)

	Pittsburgh Crawfords - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pittsburgh Crawfords were a professional baseball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania which played in the Negro Leagues.
		The Crawfords were owned by Gus "Big Red" Greenlee, who built one of the few ballparks owned by a Negro League baseball team owner--Greenlee Field.
		Greenlee also owned one of fl Pittsburgh's favorite nighttime gathering spots, the Crawford Grill, where the likes of Lena Horne and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson entertained and players like Leroy "Satchel" Paige and Josh Gibson unwound.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pittsburgh_Crawfords (182 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Pittsburgh
		Pittsburgh, city in western Pennsylvania and seat of Allegheny County.
		Pittsburgh was the nation’s foremost industrial city of the 19th century and...
		Pittsburgh, University of, public, coeducational institution in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, part of the University of Pittsburgh System.
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	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - SimCentral.NET Forums
		Today, the Pittsburgh Crawfords announced that their first two selections in the Federal League stocking draft were left fielder Ralph Kiner, and starting pitcher Hal Newhouser.
		Pittsburgh Crawfords owner Ted Blitzowski announced the hiring of his son, Janusz, as president and general manager.
		Pittsburgh Crawfords General Manager Jan Blitzowski announced the signing of second baseman Danny Murtaugh to be the team's player-manager.
	forums.simcentral.net /showthread.php?t=53078 (2259 words)

	My Mysteries of Pittsburgh: An Alphabet
		Sometimes, as in the case of Michael Chabon, an outsider arrives and adds to that lore, though mostly the job (and privilege) of telling a city's stories falls to those who were born and raised there, as in the case of John Edgar Wideman.
		In an incident never publicly resolved (at least in the Pittsburgh papers), Ernie Holmes was driving on the interstate in Ohio when he stopped his car, got out and began firing at a police helicopter with a rifle.
		Pittsburgh fielded two of the premier teams in the Negro leagues, the Pittsburgh Crawfords and the Homestead Grays, regularly drawing mixed crowds of up to 35,000.
	www.stewart-onan.com /html/my_mysteries_of_pittsburgh__an.html (2574 words)

	Blackbaseball.com :: Negro Baseball Leagues :: Pittsburgh Crawfords 1935
		The team most identified as the greatest fl baseball team of all-time is the 1935 Pittsburgh Crawfords.
		For five years, 1932-36, Gus Greenlee's Crawfords were the "Yankees of the Negro Leagues" and each year's squad draws some votes as the greatest of all-time.
		The Crawfords easily won the first half title with a.785 winning percentage and defeated the New York Cubans in a seven-game play-off for the Championship.
	www.blackbaseball.com /teams/pittsburghcrawfords1935.htm (171 words)

	Josh Gibson and Yankee Stadium
		He was lured away from the Homestead Grays to the cross-town Pittsburgh Crawfords in 1932.
		Pittsburgh was up 12-1 after 5, and yielded but one more run to the hapless Stars.
		The Crawfords were able to pull a sweep based upon the prowess of Paige and Gibson.
	www.thediamondangle.com /marasco/negleg/joshyank.html (3400 words)

	Crawford Clan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Originally, the name, "Crawford," identified an actual place in Lanarkshire, Scotland, "where the Clyde River winds down through the high moors of a marshy valley toward the Irish Sea." Clydesdale horses were bred on farms famous for their orchards and most of the land was valualble only for its minerals of coal and lead.
		Johannes Crawford was the lord of the fief of Crawford and the earliest anscestor of the Crawford name.In the year 1140 he took as his own name that of the lands he held as a feudal baron.
		During the reign of William the Lion one Sir Reginald of Crawford was appoint ed Sheriff of Ayr, a demanding and powerful post which was one of the Offices of the Crown with administrative and financial duties as well as the responsibility for hearing appeals from Courts of Barony.
	www.cs.haverford.edu /people/fcrawfor/crawf.html (831 words)

	In a City Where Steel Was King, a New Spirit Reigns
		Pittsburgh's population is as old as those in some Sun Belt retirement cities, because too many of the area's most talented young people leave in search of economic opportunity.
		The Pittsburgh Courier was the nation's leading African-American newspaper, and the city produced a seemingly endless flow of jazz stars, from Billy Strayhorn to Erroll Garner to Mary Lou Williams.
		The Pittsburgh Penguins, twice National Hockey League champions in recent years, were faced with bankruptcy until a judge approved a plan under which Mario Lemieux, the team's greatest star until he retired in 1997, took control of the team.
	www.cs.berkeley.edu /~landay/wedding/pittsburgh.html (3978 words)

	Black Baseball
		Pittsburgh Crawfords owner Gus Greenlee builds a new stadium for his team at a cost of $100,000, an enormous sum at the height of the Depression.
		Greenlee organizes the second Negro National League: the Pittsburgh Crawfords, the Homestead Grays, the Indianapolis ABCs, the Detroit Stars and the Columbus Blue Birds.
		Later that year the Pittsburgh Crawfords win the Negro National League pennant when manager/first baseman Oscar Charleston hits a grand slam to win a seven-game series over the New York Cubans.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /features/1997/blackbaseball/timeline5.html (423 words)

	Major League Baseball : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		PITTSBURGH -- As one of the oldest franchises in the Major Leagues, the Pittsburgh Pirates have a storied history that can be matched by very few other professional sports teams.
		As host to the Homestead Grays and the Pittsburgh Crawfords, the Steel City was center of the Negro League baseball universe in the 1930s.
		The dedication was followed by a pregame ceremony during which surviving Crawfords and Grays players and their descendants were recognized on the field.
	pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_news.jsp?ymd=20050128&content_id=936666&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp (1051 words)

	James W. Rouse Community Service Day
		This project is in the Lower Hill section of Pittsburgh.
		It was also the home of the Pittsburgh Crawfords, part of the Negro League Baseball.
		We started Crawford with the only stable institution in the area, St. Benedict, the most diverse Catholic church in the entire city of Pittsburgh and one that the archdiocese was going to close down as we arrived in 1987.
	www.enterprisefoundation.org /events/JWRLecture/speech2.asp (628 words)

	Stage Preview: The real Josh Gibson
		If you were fl in the city of Pittsburgh, you couldn't sleep in Oakland, eat Downtown, sit anywhere other than the balcony in theaters or try on clothes in department stores.
		Pittsburgh playwright Gregory Gibson Kenney (no relation) hopes to get the real Josh Gibson on record in separate but related projects -- a 20-minute monologue that he performs in schools and a full-length drama commissioned by Prime Stage.
		He left the mill in 1930 to catch for the Pittsburgh Crawfords and Homestead Grays.
	www.post-gazette.com /ae/20010719gibson0719p2.asp (929 words)

	Finder on the Web: Buck O'Neil recalls Pittsburgh's rich Negro League Baseball heritage
		The franchises were three of the greatest in the history of the Negro League and various similar circuits separated from Major League Baseball by pigmentation.
		Let a master storyteller sit alongside and serve as tour guide through a largely forgotten 1929-48 Pittsburgh period that bears remembering as much as the homer by Maz and the grace of Clemente, for whom these predecessors made it all possible.
		Heck, he was the Crawfords pitcher who, on July 4, 1934, no-hit Homestead in the first game and blew a save in the second, finishing with 20 strikeouts in all.
	www.post-gazette.com /sports/columnists/20010710webfinder.asp (978 words)

	Josh Gibson
		Josh Gibson was born on December 21, 1911 in Buena Vista, GA; his family moved to Pittsburgh, PA in the 1920s.
		During his time with the Crawfords, Gibson won three home run titles - hitting 69 in '34 - and teamed up with the legendary Satchell Paige for what may have been the best battery combination in baseball history.
		There are reports that the Pittsburgh Pirates and Washington Senators considered giving the catcher a tryout in the late 30s, but decided not to break the "gentleman's" agreement the owners had made against allowing fls into the major leagues.
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	Josh_Gibson - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
		Joshua Gibson (December 21, 1911 in Buena Vista, Georgia - January 20, 1947 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was a catcher for the Homestead Grays and later the Pittsburgh Crawfords in baseball's Negro Leagues.
		It was reported that he won nine home-run titles and four batting championships playing for the Crawfords and the Homestead Grays.
		Gibson is buried in the Allegheny Cemetery in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Lawrenceville.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Josh_Gibson (607 words)

	Links and Resources for African American Students
		This organization focuses on retaining and attracting young African Americans to Pittsburgh with frequent events and programs aimed at improving their quality of life.
		Part of the church was built over Ammons Field, which was the ballpark of the Pittsburgh Crawfords, the famous Negro League baseball team.
		The ballpark of the famous Pittsburgh Crawfords, one of the all-time greatest Negro League baseball teams.
	www.cmu.edu /bio/graduate/linksaa.shtml (514 words)

	Lifting the Lid at Greenlee
		The Pittsburgh Courier declared it to be a "mecca of the Hill district." And of course, it had very nice dressing rooms.
		After honoring our country, the Crawfords gave the spotlight to Robert L. Vann, who was the editor of The Pittsburgh Courier.
		The Crawfords declined in the latter part of the decade.
	www.thediamondangle.com /marasco/negleg/greenlee.html (810 words)

	Clarkson made his mark in baseball's Negro Leagues - PittsburghLIVE.com
		After college, Clarkson was drafted by the Pittsburgh Crawfords baseball team, of the Negro National League.
		Greenlee's Pittsburgh Crawfords dominated baseball during the mid-1930s until the Homestead Grays took the title from the Crawfords and won nine consecutive Negro National League titles from the late 1930s through the mid-1940s.
		He then went to the Toledo Crawfords in '39, the Indianapolis Crawfords in '40, Newark Eagles in 1940 and 1942, the Mexican League in 1941 and 1946-47, and the Philadelphia Stars in 1942, 1946 and 1949-50.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/news/s_365159.html (1061 words)

	Gus Greenlee - Owner Pittsburg Crawfords, Baseball Negro Leagues
		In addition to the Crawfords, he also owned his own ballpark, a famous nightclub (the Crawford Bar and Grill), and a stable of boxers including light-heavyweight champion John Henry Lewis.
		Greenlee and William "Woogie" Harris, are credited with introducing the numbers racket to Pittsburgh in 1926 (Pittsburgh Press, February 10, 1936) and ran one of the largest and most complex gambling networks of the period.
		Greenlee sold the Crawfords in 1939 and the club subsequently relocated to Toledo (then to Indianapolis in 1940).
	www.nlbpa.com /greenlee_gus.html (242 words)

	WQED Multimedia: Pittsburgh History Series: Having fun: Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bell, William Y. Commerical recreation facilities among Negroes in the Hill District of Pittsburgh.
		Pittsburgh, the story of the city of champions: the 70's – a decade unmatched in the annals of sports.
		Amusement park near Pittsburgh touts six coasters, three of which are wooden.
	www.wqed.org /erc/pghist/units/fun/fun_rsc.shtml (362 words)

	Insight on the News: Wild pitches in Dominican Republic: in 1937, several Negro League legends became guns for hire in ...
		As the Crawfords began their spring training in New Orleans in 1937, Paige was met by agents of Trujillo.
		He left the Birmingham Black Barons for the Crawfords in 1931 and put the team on the map with his pitching skill and his colorful, crowd-pleasing style.
		In Pittsburgh, Greenlee was not a man to be trifled with.
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	Oscar Charleston
		But it was as manager of the dynastic Pittsburgh Crawfords in the early to mid 1930s (a team which many rate as the
		Often considered fl baseball's greatest team, the Crawfords became the dominant member of the tough National Negro Association, which operated from 1933 to 1936.
		Pittsburgh claimed the 1933 pennant, as did the Chicago American Giants, without resolution.
	www.baseball-statistics.com /HOF/Charleston.htm (837 words)

	McFarland - Publisher of Reference and Scholarly Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Pittsburgh Crawfords were one of the Negro League’s best and most exciting teams.
		This work takes a close look at the lives and careers of these men and others who played for the Crawfords, all of whom together built one of the greatest teams ever to play the game.
		Also included are comparisons between the Crawfords and the 1927 “Murderer’s Row” New York Yankees, the Negro National League standings (1933—1938), and statistics about the players and team records.
	www.mcfarlandpub.com /book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-0992-4 (137 words)

	Soul Of America - Pittsburgh: Churches / Historic Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This famous Y has been serving the Hill District since 1922; it serves as a sports center, after-school center, daycare center, family reunification center, food pantry, and medical clinic and emergency shelter center; the benefit it has delivered to the community is incalculable; 2621 Centre Ave; 412-621-1762
		One of Pittsburgh's historic jazz nightclubs; this boarded up building barely saved from the wrecking ball; it used to rival Crawford Grill as the most happenin' spot; Webster Ave in the Hill District
		This school was famous for teaching music to several Pittsburgh's great jazz musicians for providing their formative musical training, including Earl Hines, Art Blakey, and Ray Brown; N Bellefield at Centre Ave
	www.soulofamerica.com /cityfldr/pittsburgh2.html (175 words)

	Odds & Ends: Chronology
		The Strip District annexed by the city of Pittsburgh.
		Oakland Township annexed to the City of Pittsburgh.
		Bill Mazeroski's home run wins the World Series for the Pittsburgh Pirates, 10-9, against the New York Yankees October 13.
	www.clpgh.org /exhibit/chron.html (306 words)

	Josh Gibson: an Essay
		The Pittsburgh Crawfords of 1935 were champions of the Negro National League and perhaps the greatest team ever.
		Gibson would play for the Grays for the rest of his career** and thus we have our G which stands for the Grays of Homestead - a team that was started as a recreational league for fl steelworkers.
		His 80,000 photographic images in the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh are the largest collection of photographs of any Black community in the world and are perhaps the greatest evidence of what life was like in Pittsburgh's fl community from 1930 thru the early 70s (Crouch).
	www.pace.edu /library/pages/links/ondisplay/joshessay.htm (2031 words)

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