by admin | Apr 18, 2021 | News
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by admin | Oct 22, 2021 | Charlie's Monday Markers
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,...
by admin | Oct 22, 2021 | Charlie's Monday Markers
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...