The Bronx Is Burning meets Chuck Klosterman in this wild pop-culture history of baseball's most colorful and controversial decade The Major Leagues witnessed more dramatic stories and changes in the '70s than in any other era. The American popular culture and counterculture collided head-on with the national pastime, rocking the once-conservative sport to its very foundations. Outspoken players embraced free agency, openly advocated drug use, and even swapped wives.
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Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s [Book]
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This Day in Transaction History: Pirates reacquire Manny Sanguillén - NBC Sports
While Jackie Robinson's breakthrough in 1947 opened the gates of opportunity for African Americans and other minority players, it was not until 1971 when a team first enjoyed a full and complete level of integration, with half of its twenty-five-man roster comprised of players of African American and Latino descent. That team was the Pittsburgh Pirates, managed by an old-time Irishman.
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The Team that Changed Baseball: Roberto Clemente and the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates [Book]
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50 years ago when the Pittsburgh Pirates fielded a team of All brothers out there - Talker of the Town
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April 6, 1973: Something's missing: No Clemente in right field for Pirates – Society for American Baseball Research
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CORSAIR TALES THROUGH THE YEARS
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Card Corner, 1971 Topps: Manny Sanguillen
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There will never be another
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1971 Pirates were special in many ways, John Sacco
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Pepsi Baseball Trading Card 1977 Manny Sanguillen Oakland
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