RECAP OF THE SPRING FORBES FIELD CHAPTER MEETING.

Please click on the link below to read about the 2004 Forbes Field Spring SABR Meeting at the John Heinz History Center.

THE RECAP.

HALL OF FAME GRAVESITES.

Long-time members will recall a few gravesite tours we did during past meetings. As you may know, four members of the Baseball Hall of Fame rest in the Pittsburgh area. If you have a GPS receiver, here are the exact locations of our four guys:

• Josh Gibson: Allegheny, between Lawrenceville and Friendship. N 40 28' 28.4" W 79 56' 46.1"

• Pie Traynor: Homewood, in Point Breeze. N 40 26' 40.2" W 79 54' 40.6"

• Pud Galvin (family plot): Calvary, between Hazelwood and Greenfield. N 40 24' 57.4" W 79 55' 56.0"

• Honus Wagner: Jefferson Memorial, South Hills, off Curry Hollow Rd. N 40 19' 59.8" W 79 58' 54.5"

• A full list of all HOFers can be found at www.stewthornley.net/halloffamegraves.html.

WELCOME ABOARD. NEW PITTSBURGH AREA MEMBERS OF SABR:

The following is a list of the new Pittsburgh Area members of SABR.

• Dino Guarino of Pittsburgh.

• Douglas Wilson of Pittsburgh.

• Kenneth Gray of Pittsburgh.

• Eugene Siren of Pittsburgh.

• John Kopera of Hastings.

INFORMATION NEEDED:

• Mark Vatavuk (vat69er@hotmail.com) is researching pro baseball in Erie. He wonders if anyone has any information on games between the Pirates and teams from Erie. He's aware of a game played in 1906. Does anyone know anything about any other games, like maybe in the 20s or 30s? Any info will be appreciated.

• Gene Carney (carneya6@borg.com) is looking into the 1919 World Series fix. "In the 1920 grand jury hearings, one of the players testifying (Rube Benton, I believe) mentioned a Pittsburgh gambling syndicate that was in on it -- but I've seen nothing elsewhere on that. Have you?" Also, Edd Roush felt that the Reds were the better team. He later recalled Cicotte, when he finally "spilled the beans" to the grand jury, saying "We were out there trying to win after that first ball game" -- but the writers, Roush says, had all picked the Sox, and they latched onto the Fix theory (my phrase, not Edd's) to give themselves an alibi, so they didn't report what Cicotte said. Roush was playing for the Reds in Sept 1920, and according to Retrosheet, the Reds played 2 games at home on September 28, then nothing till another doubleheader Oct 2 in Pittsburgh. Can anyone can verify that Cicotte's statements appeared in the Pittsburgh papers -- where Roush might have seen them?

CHAPTER NEWS.

• An Update on the installation of the historical marker celebrating the first World Series.

• Through the member poll located right here on the web site, the chapter will choose the all time Pirate team, position by position. Find Out who the first team and second team first baseman were.

• Forbes Field Chapter Members give their predictions of the 2003 major league season. Go to the Chapter News page to see the results.

• Through the hard work of the Forbes Field Chapter, the parameters of Exposition Park were found and marked in the parking lots located between PNC Park and Heinz Field. An article written by Denis Repp on the subject for the Pirates Alumni News letter "The Black and Gold" can be found in the Chapter News Section.

Click here Finding Exposition Park

MEMBERS PROJECTS.

• To find out more about the work of members David Finoli and Bill Ranier and their top 100 Pirates list that is found in their upcoming book "The Pittsburgh Pirates Encyclopedia", please check out the projects page.

• Member Bart Ripp has a wonderful story on Hall of Famer Pie Traynor. Please go to the Projects page to read about this Steel City Legend.

• We'd also like to include any Forbes Field Chapter authors in this section so if you have any books that have been recently published or have been published within the past couple years and is still in publication, please submit the name to Denis Repp at spindown66@hotmail.com .

MEMBERS WEB SITES.

Many of our members have some great web sites celebrating the passion we all have in common, that of the National Pastime. Please check out the Web Site Page for a listing and description of those sites

If anyone has any questions or comments on the Forbes Field chapter, including any projects, research subjects, recent book publishings, appearances, articles or web sites that you would like to include on the site, please contact Denis Repp at spindown66@hotmail.com