Dick Groat, one of the greatest two-sport athletes in Pittsburgh's history -- which included winning a Most Valuable Player award for the 1960 Pirates, having his number retired by Duke basketball and spending 40 years as a color analyst calling Pitt basketball games -- has died. He was 92 years old.
Among Groat's many accolades in the baseball world, which included eight All-Star nods and two World Series rings, included being named a future inductee to the Pirates' Hall of Fame just last week.
Groat played one season in the NBA for the Fort Wayne Pistons in 1952, but after returning from two years of military service in 1954 was told by Branch Rickey that he could only play baseball.