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Sports legend Dick Groat honored with ‘day,’ recalls ’60 World Series win

Dick Goat, 88, holds the proclamation naming Oct. 18 as Dick Groat Day in Westmoreland County in a reception at Totteridge Golf Course in Salem. With Groat are Commissioners Ted Kopas, Chuck Anderson and Gina Cerilli. <strong>Video, TribLIVE.com</strong>

Pittsburgh Pirates legend Dick Groat turned the memories of some gray-haired golfers and University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg supporters to a time 59 years ago, when they were young and the scrappy Bucs beat the Goliath of the baseball world, the New York Yankees, to win the 1960 World Series.


Source: The Tribune-Review

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