After breakfast we walked around the vicinity of our hotel. We were very close to the campuses of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. At 10:15 the tour bus picked us up for a tour of the city. The first stop was a shopping mall called Station Square. We took a train car up a very steep hill called Mt. Washington where we got some beautiful views of the city. At 1:30 PM Woody Cunningham joined us to guide us through the city and to give a history of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The highlight of the tour was a visit to the site of Forbes Field where the Pirates played from 1909-70. Home plate was in a building now part of the University of Pittsburgh. Part of the outfield wall was reconstructed outside the building. There was a marker where Bill Mazeroski’s World Series winning home run in 1960 crossed the wall. The Pirates beat the Washington Nationals 3-2. (http://mlb.mlb.com/news/wrap.jsp?ymd=20070629&content_id=2056407&vkey=wrapup2005&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb)
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