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    Baseball in Altoona: From the Mountain City to the Curve
    Baseball in Altoona: From the Mountain City to the Curve
    Baseball in Altoona: From the Mountain City to the Curve
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    Baseball in Altoona: From the Mountain City to the Curve

    By Dave Finoli

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    For 46 days in the spring of 1884, Altoona had the honor of having a major-league baseball team, the Mountain City. For the next 115 years, despite the fact that baseball flourished here in the form of the game that the men of the Pennsylvania Railroad played, professional baseball floundered as six teams came and six teams left. Finally, in 1999, Altoona proved it could support a professional team when the Curve came to town. Since then, an impressive 10 percent of the town s population has shown up at every game, showing the love the community has for the national pastime.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateFeb 6, 2008
    ISBN9781439620045
    Baseball in Altoona: From the Mountain City to the Curve
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    Dave Finoli

    David Finoli is a sportswriter from Monroeville, where he lives with his wife and three children. The Duquesne University graduate has penned six other books, including two with Arcadia: The Pittsburgh Pirates and The Birthplace of Professional Football: Southwestern Pennsylvania. Finoli has also contributed to Pittsburgh Magazine, the Pirate Gameday Program, and nosecatbooks.com.

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