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Fox Sports
14-07-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
Pittsburgh Pirates All-Stars: Building the Best Pirates All-Time Lineup
Maz's Game 7 homer to win it all. Clemente building bridges on and off the diamond. Stargell popping off to the sounds of "We Are Family." Long before Paul Skenes had batters chasing splinkers, these were the legendary Pirates making their mark on the Alleghany. Manager: Fred Clarke Clarke was a high-level hitter for the Pirates from 1900-11, but he was also the team's manager from 1900-15. Under — and with — Clarke, the Pirates won four NL pennants, highlighted by winning the 1909 World Series, a season which saw them go 110-42 in what was the franchise's first championship. In 1902, the Pirates finished 103-36, with their 74.1% winning percentage second in a single season in MLB history. Clarke is first in Pirates history with 1,422 managerial wins and a 59.5% winning percentage among full-time managers. Starting pitcher: Wilbur Cooper Cooper spent the first 13 seasons of his career with the Pirates (1912-24), with whom he was one of the best starting pitchers of his generation. The left-handed Cooper led the NL in complete games twice and wins once, while consistently pitching deep into games and effectively inducing weak contact. Cooper, who posted a career 2.74 ERA in Pittsburgh, is first in Pirates history with both 202 wins and 263 complete games, second among pitchers with both a 47.9 WAR and 3,199.0 innings pitched, third with 1,191 strikeouts and fourth with 33 shutouts. Reliever/closer: Roy Face Face, who spent the majority of his career with the Pirates (1953 and 1955-68), was a key ingredient in Pittsburgh's 1960 championship team. The right-hander was a stabilizing presence in Pittsburgh's bullpen, leading the NL in saves three times and providing length (Face pitched 1,314.2 innings across 802 appearances). Face, a six-time All-Star, is first in Pirates history with 186 career saves and posted a combined 3.46 ERA with the franchise. Catcher: Jason Kendall Kendall spent the first nine seasons of his career with the Pirates (1996-2004), with whom he was one of the best all-around catchers of his era. Earning each of his three All-Star honors in Pittsburgh, Kendall was consistently a contact hitter who got on base at a high level and also stole bases at an impressive clip for a catcher (19 stolen bases per season from 1997-2002). Kendall posted a career .306/.387/.418 slash for the Pirates. Fun fact, Kendall is far and away first in Pirates history with 177 hit by pitches, 66 more than Starling Marte's 111 hit by pitches, which ranks second. 1B: Willie Stargell Stargell spent his entire 21-year career with the Pirates (1962-82), being a featured part of Pittsburgh's 1971 and 1979 championship teams and winning MVP honors for the 1979 World Series. Time and time again, Stargell was one of the most dangerous hitters in the game, swinging an impact bat from the left side and driving in runs at a high level. He led the NL in home runs twice and earned seven All-Star nods. Stargell, who won the 1979 NL MVP Award and played both left field and first base, is first in Pirates history with 475 home runs, 1,540 RBIs and 937 walks, third with a .529 slugging percentage, fourth with 423 doubles, fifth with both 1,194 runs scored and a 57.6 WAR and seventh with 2,232 hits. 2B: Bill Mazeroski Mazeroski is part of the Pirates' identity. Part of the franchise's 1960 and 1971 World Series championships, Mazeroski, who spent his entire 17-year career in Pittsburgh (1956-72), was a stable force at the middle-infield position and a reliable contact hitter on a perennial contender. An eight-time Gold Glover and 10-time All-Star, Mazeroski shined in the 1960 World Series, totaling two home runs and five RBIs, while posting a .320/.320/.640 slash line. Mazeroski is first in Pirates history with a 24.0 defensive WAR, sixth with 853 RBIs, eighth with 2,016 hits, ninth with 294 doubles and 10th with 138 home runs. 3B: Pie Traynor Traynor was a tough out. The third baseman was one of the best at getting on base and consistently hitting runners across the basepaths. Traynor, a two-time All-Star, starred on the Pirates' 1925 World Series title team, which saw him post a .346/.414/.615 slash line. He totaled a double-digit number of triples in 11 seasons and 100-plus RBIs in seven seasons. Traynor is fourth in Pirates history with 1,273 RBIs, tied for fourth with 2,416 hits, is fifth with 3,289 total bases, sixth with 1,183 runs scored and ninth with both a .320 batting average and a 42.6 offensive WAR. Furthermore, the career-long Pirate (1920-35 and 1937) managed the team from 1934-39. SS: Honus Wagner Honus Wagner was really good at baseball. After spending the first three seasons of his career with the Louisville Colonels, Wagner landed in Pittsburgh for the 1900 season and became one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Over the next 18 seasons, Wagner won eight batting titles, led the NL in WAR seven times, doubles seven times, RBIs four times and hits twice. Hitting the ball to all fields, producing extra-base hit after extra-base hit and slugging at a high level, Wagner was in an exclusive class among hitters. While a primary shortstop, he started at all four infield positions and posted a .333/.467/.500 slash line in the Pirates' 1909 World Series triumph. Wagner is first in Pirates history with 232 triples, 1,521 runs scored and a 120.3 WAR, second with 1,474 RBIs, 2,967 hits and 639 stolen bases and fourth with a .328 batting average. Moreover, he's eighth in MLB history with 3,420 career hits. OF: Ralph Kiner Kiner only played 10 MLB seasons, seven-plus of them spent with the Pirates from 1946-53, but he made the most of each one of them. A six-time All-Star, Kiner flat-out raked. He had imposing power from the right side, was as dangerous as any hitter of his time and led the NL in home runs in each of his first seven seasons, including two 50-plus home run seasons. Kiner, who's in the Hall of Fame, is second in Pirates history with both 301 home runs and a .567 slugging percentage, sixth with 795 walks, eighth with both 801 RBIs and a .405 on-base percentage and 10th with a 43.3 WAR. OF: Andrew McCutchen The Pirates had one of the best players in the sport with McCutchen, who began his career with the franchise from 2009-17. Primarily playing center field, McCutchen was among the best outfielders of the early 2010s, rewarded with a Gold Glove in 2012. At the plate, McCutchen had a crisp, contact swing that generated slug, and he made some noise on the basepaths. McCutchen led the NL with 194 hits in 2012 and won the 2013 NL MVP Award, with him also leading the NL with a 7.8 WAR in said year. The star outfielder returned to the Pirates in 2023, with him presently in his second stint with the franchise. McCutchen, whose four Silver Slugger awards and five All-Star nods all came in Pittsburgh, is third in Pirates history with 243 home runs, seventh with both 849 RBIs and 343 doubles, ninth with 1,740 hits and 10th with both 963 runs scored and a 43.3 WAR. OF: Roberto Clemente Clemente is one of the best players to step on a baseball field. A 12-time Gold Glover and 15-time All-Star, Clemente spent his entire career in Pittsburgh (1955-72), with whom he helped win the 1960 and 1971 World Series championships and won the 1971 World Series MVP Award. The superstar outfielder posted a career .318/.354/.449 postseason slash line and served as Pittsburgh's primary right fielder, with Clemente being one of the best all-around hitters of any generation. A four-time NL batting champion, Clemente led the NL in hits twice and posted four 200-plus hit seasons. Clemente is first in Pirates history with 3,000 hits and 4,492 total bases, second with a 94.9 WAR, third with both 1,305 RBIs and 1,416 runs scored and fourth with 240 home runs. DH: Barry Bonds It all started in Pittsburgh for the all-time MLB home run leader (Bonds hit an MLB-best 762 career home runs). From the jump, Bonds caused issues on the basepaths for pitching staffs, had elite power and was one of the best outfielders in the sport. Across his last three seasons with the Pirates (1990-92), Bonds averaged 31 home runs, 101 RBIs and 45 stolen bases per season, while posting a .301/.424/.566 slash line. He also earned a Gold Glove and Silver Slugger Award in each of those three seasons and an All-Star honor in two of them. Despite playing just seven seasons with the franchise (1986-92), Bonds is fifth in Pirates history with 176 home runs, seventh with both 251 stolen bases and a 50.3 WAR and eighth with a .503 slugging percentage. Honorable Mentions: Danny Murtaugh (manager) John Candelaria (starting pitcher) Bob Veale (starting pitcher) Babe Adams (starting pitcher) Bob Friend (starting pitcher) Kent Tekulve (reliever/closer) Claude Ritchey (2B) Johnny Ray (2B) Tommy Leach (3B) Richie Hebner (3B) Fred Clarke (OF) Max Carey (OF) Paul Waner (OF) - fixed this one Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? Create or log in to your FOX Sports account, and follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily! FOLLOW Follow your favorites to personalize your FOX Sports experience Major League Baseball Pittsburgh Pirates recommended Item 1 of 3 Get more from the Major League Baseball Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more in this topic
Yahoo
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kate Beckinsale pays emotional tribute to late father Richard Beckinsale
Taking to Instagram on Sunday, the Underworld actress shared a photo of her Porridge actor dad, who tragically died at the age of 31 in 1979. 'Happy 78th birthday, Daddy," she wrote, candidly adding: "For the first time in my life I am really glad you're not here. I'm so grateful you're not seeing what I'm seeing.' Kate went on to share a sweet memory from her childhood. 'I miss you and love you so very very much. Thank you for letting me dig up the little potatoes you grew and letting me wear your enormous wellies..."
The Sun
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
The 9 ‘legendary' McDonald's Happy Meal toys that everyone had in 80s & 90s which could now make you a small fortune
There's something about a McDonald's Happy Meal that turns us all into big kids, no matter what age we are. And they have contained some amazing toys over the years including their exciting collabs that keep on launching – like Toy Story and Minecraft. 2 The Happy Meal The McDonald's Happy Meal has been around since 1979 and a small toy or book is included with the food. Both of which are usually contained in a red cardboard box with a yellow smiley face and the McDonald's logo. The first toys included a McDonald's themed stencil, a wallet and a spinning top. However, as the years flew past, the toys got more sought after as they tied in with the latest craze or new film release. Hungry youngsters were likely to find action figures, toy cars and puzzles inside the boxes down the decades. In recent years, McDonald's has started phasing out plastic toys in favour of more sustainable items. But how much are the most legendary toys now worth? TY Teenie Beanie Babies These were mini soft toys that were in meal boxes in 1997, during the Beanie Babies craze. There were huge queues at some McDonald's restaurants for them. There were even reports of fights breaking out, such was the demand reports The News. The popular characters included Patti the Platypus and Pinchers the Lobster. A complete set of 12 Teenie Beanies toys from 1998 is listed for sale on eBay for more than £420, but they are available for less elsewhere. Changeables These were released in the late 80s and early 90s, when Transformers were the new craze. They converted from food items like a burger or fries into dinosaurs or robots. However, the average price for a set of four Changeables on eBay seems to be only £30. Hot Wheels McDonald's teamed up with Hot Wheels to include model cars in Happy Meal boxes in 1983. They have produced quite a few classic vehicles over the years since then. A Cadillac Seville, is listed for sale on eBay for just over £50. Inspector Gadget The Inspector Gadget toy was a tie in with the 1999 movie, starring Matthew Broderick. Children had to collect all eight parts to complete their Inspector Gadget action figure. One set of all the pieces in their original wrappers is listed on eBay for just under £1,100. But another is listed for only a little over £40. Toy Story 2 figures These were released in 2000 to tie in with the huge blockbuster Toy Story 2. They included Woody, Slinky Dog and Buzz Lightyear, which everyone wanted. A set of six toys from that collection is listed on eBay for £25. Sonic games Sonic the Hedgehog handheld games were given in Happy Meals in 2003. They included a racing game and a basic adventure game where you had to collect the rings. A set of four of the original 2003 games in their original packaging is listed on eBay for around £35. Lego Motion Basic Lego toys were given away inside Happy Meals in 1989, with models including a helicopter, a race car and a sea plane. You can pick these models up for around £5 each on eBay. In 1994, similar toys called Lego System were released and a set of four of these toys is listed on eBay for just over £50. Back to the Future Delorean The Back to the Future Happy Meal toys were released to tie in with the cartoon series which came out in 1991. They included Marty McFly on a hoverboard and the DeLorean car with Doc Brown. The Marty McFly and DeLorean toys together on eBay are available for around £25. Batmobile The Batman Returns Happy Meal toys were given away to tie in with the 1992 movie. You can pick up a set of these on eBay for around £35.
Forbes
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
What Is Queer Food? A Talk With Author John Birdsall
A banner reading 'We Are Everywhere' at a Gay Pride march on Fifth Avenue in New York City, USA, ... More July 1979. (Photo by) In his book released a month ago, What is Queer Food? How We Served a Revolution, writer/historian John Birdsall challenges readers to dive deeply into a chronicle of culture that was quite literally curated and nourished by people having to hide a giant piece of their authentic selves. This important record not only reveals so much more about who these figures were--like James Baldwin, Alice B. Toklas, Esther Eng, Harry Baker, Craig Claiborne, Richard Olney, and James Beard, etc.,--but firmly establishes their rightful places in history, and within the culinary sphere of taste and pleasure that hummed throughout the 20th century. Originally set out to produce more of a memoir, Birdsall was encouraged by his editor, Melanie Tortoroli, to see this project as an opportunity to widen the scope, to create something that hadn't been done before, all while still being able to share a sense of his own perspective and experience within a world he knew well and deeply loved. She encouraged him to take queerness in food in whatever direction he saw fit. Birdsall admits there came a well of freedom upon such an invitation to explore. Cover of Birdsall's new book, What is Queer Food? Released on June 3. Cover illustration by Naomi P. ... More Wilkinson and book design by Sarah May Wilkinson (no relation). The Book The result is a book that is truly the first of its kind, one that spans genres and takes risks. In one way, Birdsall picks up where he left off in his 2013 article, 'America, Your Food is So Gay' for Lucky Peach; and from his 2020 biography of James Beard, The Man Who Ate Too Much, in order to take on this next, much broader project. Nevertheless, Birdsall says, 'I think this book has always been in me.' In an unmistakably beautiful, literary voice, one underscored by the intersection of history, emotion, and experience, What is Queer Food? also asks readers to look at the term 'queer' through a sharper lens; to give it more dimension and nuance, something he said younger generations--like the Gen Zers, who've shown up at his book signings and talks--do with a fluency that his own generation hasn't fully grasped. According to recent research, approximately 30% of Gen Z adults identify as queer and LBGTQ+ (HRC) and, as Birdsall adds, 'generationally, there's more nuance; it is not so narrowly defined as it once was--what queerness can be--as just gay or lesbian.' He offers this statistic while noting Toni Morrison's famous quote upon winning the Nobel Prize for literature about being marginalized; it has become an anthem of sorts, a rally cry, for those otherwise othered and hidden in plain sight. Author John Birdsall at Omnivore Books in San Francisco, June 22. When talking to Birdsall further about how he gathered stories for the book, he admits it was not easy given the amount many of the figures explored had to hide who they really were, therefore leaving very little evidence as to their private lives. 'For me, as a writer and historian, my practice has been using emotion to try to illuminate queer and trans histories that have been obscured," Birdsall said in our recent interview, 'We may have scraps of archival information, but there is so much to fill in,' he added. Unfortunately, things like letters and cards or other memorabilia and souvenirs from meaningful relationships were simply too dangerous to keep for fear of damning consequences. Birdsall tells us that even what we know today of some of James Beard's close connections, for example, are due to an assistant's forethought (or nosiness). In some cases, notes were retrieved from a wastebasket for fear of them being lost forever. To people like Beard---who was so visible and in the public eye--it just wasn't safe to keep anything around that would be considered sentimental. Which made digging for the whisps of memory and experience surrounding the many figures Birdsall explores in the book, all the more impenetrable. He saw it, however, as both a challenge and opportunity. He took the bits and pieces discovered over the last decade and assembled them while further imagining the worlds the figures lived in, and, what those worlds and experiences tasted like, so to speak. From a recent signing in June for Birdsall's new book. Part of his solution was to lean on the emotions he knew must have accentuated real events. For example, Sunday women in apartments in NYC of the 1950s he learned would gather together to listen to Tallulah Bankhead who, as Birdsall described, 'Had the power in her to control her own sexuality and still have a public voice and be a star.' Although there's no record that fully reveals what those gatherings encompassed, Birdsall helps readers wonder on the page about how food must have played a role amidst such powerful moments in time. Friendsgiving, Anyone? Birdsall says, despite how ubiquitous this annual occasion has become, 'Queer people know they really pioneered it. It is taken for granted that we choose our family--even if we cherish and celebrate with our blood families--there's a culture of the chosen family that is really encapsulated there.' For many, at one time, this 'holiday' meant one safe haven when there was no other. So, Birdsall investigates the lives of many in the book while filling in the scenes of places like New York City's Café Nicholson with Edna Lewis; in San Francisco at the Paper Doll Club; in Los Angeles with Harry Baker as he created his bewitching Chiffon cake; or even the author's own home on page 473 of the New York Times Cook Book where Birdsall became enthralled by a golden brioche. Readers journey through the stories on precipices of emotion the figures covered quite likely endured. From deeply satisfying displays of creativity and community around food and taste they built to endless moments of pain suffered under the cloaks of lies thrust upon them. This book, Birdsall believes, creates a foundation for more to come. It's a green light to to sound the alarm. It's a marquee to celebrate the tales of the untold, still sitting in boxes in the attic. With such a revelatory foundation, Birdsall is passing a torch to the next generation to to keep every name in queer food present on our plates, on our restaurant awnings, in our cookbooks, and out of the closet. Signing books on tour, author John Birdsall.
Associated Press
29-06-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Dave Parker Career Stats
Awards NL All-Star - 1977, 79, 80, 81, 85, 86. NL Gold Glove - 1977, 78, 79. NL MVP - 1978. All-Star MVP - 1979. Hall of Fame - 2025.
