THIS episode of “Charlie’s Monday Marker” looks at the legacy of Pittsburgh “working-class” sports in 20th-century baseball, football and boxing. Hear the stories of Captain Bill Jones, the Homestead Grays and Pittsburgh Crawfords, Billy Conn, Harry Greb,...
JULY 1933: U.S. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins visited Homestead and Pittsburgh, speaking to hundreds of steelworkers … Perkins was the first woman named to a White House cabinet position and known as “The Architect of the New Deal” and a solid...