If there is one thing we Pittsburghers take pride in, it’s all the championships won by our professional sports teams: Four Stanley Cup titles for the Penguins, five World Series wins for the Pirates, and a record six Super Bowl victories for the Steelers, the quest for a seventh delayed once again by a New England Patriots juggernaut.
Yet in spite of this month’s prognostication from Punxsutawney Phil and yesterday’s snowfall, we can take heart in the knowledge that another baseball season is just around the corner. And this year will not only mark the 70th anniversary of the year that Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier as well as Hank Greenberg’s debut as a Pirate, but also an on-field collision involving the two of them that shook the baseball world.