Sports Town: A Look at the Famous Sports Pages of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by David Shribman

Selected covers from 1891 thru 2004.

This book chronicles some of the most famous sports events that have occurred in Western Pennsylvania history over the last 100 years. Featuring reprints of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's front pages, this book features some of the most famous pages include
On July 29, 1786, John Scull and Joseph Hall published the first newspaper west of the Allegheny Mountains, the Pittsburgh Gazette. Scull and Hall brought a printing press from Philadelphia and set it up in a small shop in the village which was growing up around Fort Pitt. There were name changes and mergers through the ensuing years. The Block family published the first-ever Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on August 2, 1927. On April 23, 1960, the Post-Gazette purchased the Sun-Telegraph from the Hearst Corp. In 1961, the Post-Gazette entered a Joint Operating Agreement with the Pittsburgh Press. The JOA remained in effect until a strike in 1992 shut down the newspapers for 8 months. Scripps­ Howard decided to sell the Press and in December of 1992 the Post-Gazette bought The Pittsburgh Press. The Post­ Gazette resumed publication on January 18, 1993 as a seven-day-a-week morning newspaper. From its tenacious beginning as a four-page weekly, the Pittsburgh Post­ Gazette has grown to a metropolitan daily with a circulation of more than 245,000 daily and more than 408,000 on Sunday.

Oversize paperback in very good condition.