Over the Monster · Apr 10, 2018
Daily Red Sox Links: A baseball pilgrimage to Pittsburgh
Baseball has been played in Pittsburgh for a long time. It has been done in the name of the Pirates since 1891. That’s 10 years before the Red Sox (then the Boston Americans) entered the MLB ranks. While Boston is baseball mecca to us here at OTM, during the last weekend, I had the chance to take a journey to one of baseball’s other holy cities.
After driving the straight-shot across Pennsylvania from Philadelphia, which included plenty of open farmland and varied billboards, I found my way to the Friendship neighborhood of Pittsburgh, just a bit northeast of Oakland and the University of Pittsburgh. It’s at Pitt that the baseball journey really began.
