1973 — Orlando Cepeda becomes the first player signed specifically to be a designated hitter. He signs with the Boston Red Sox one week after the designated hitter rule is approved. 1976 — Pittsburgh ...

Traded to Pittsburgh after the 1986 season ... Brief White Sox coach Orlando Cepeda (who Bill Veeck brought back to baseball after a prison sentence, and who tried to acquire Cepeda during ...

The prospects include another third baseman, Cole Mathis, infielder/outfielder Jonathon Long and shortstop Angel Cepeda. To quality, a prospect cannot be ranked among the Top 10 prospects in the ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Eighty years ago on Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers liberated Auschwitz and uncovered the horrors of the Holocaust. The day now also known as International Holocaust Remembrance ...

When Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese-born player to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, he became the ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The Pittsburgh area is getting its first Wegmans. The grocery store chain confirmed on Monday that it has plans to open a location in Cranberry on Cool Spring Drive, near the ...

PITTSBURGH — Nikita Kucherov had two goals and an assist as the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 on Sunday. Brandon Hagel also scored for the Lightning before Anthony Cirelli ...

EXTENDED RESTAURANT WEEK BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER. PITTSBURGH RESTAURANT WEEK BRINGS IN CUSTOMERS AND ALLOWS FOODIES TO TRY NEW CREATIONS, GETS PEOPLE OUT AND GETS PEOPLE ENTICED TO TRY THE ...

The Pittsburgh Steelers will go into the playoffs off four straight losses after losing to the Cincinnati Bengals on Saturday night in Week 18, 19-17. Now, we wait to see who their first-round ...

He struck him out looking. Orlando Cepeda led off the next inning, and Roger Maris ended it. Curt Flood was in the game, not too long before he changed the sport forever off the field. He batted ...