Since the Pirates are 4 games ahead of St. Louis in the Central Division this year, what better time to celebrate another winning team – THE DUQUESNE ZEMPS!
Since I began writing this blog, I have received many questions about the Duquesne Zemps. I have dug through countless issues of The Duquesne Times, and have found articles about the Zemps. Unlike the fanatical over-the-top obsession that the media has for sports teams today, The Duquesne Times offered a more subdued approach.
As I combed through the papers, I was able to discover that the Zemps originally were a sandlot team of guys that played on the Polish Hill fields. The team originated from a group of players in 1933. Most of the team members were first generation Americans whose parents primarily immigrated from Zemplinsky County in Czekoslovakia, thus the name ZEMPS.
1949 was a very good year for the team as the following articles will illustrate. There are many names that are familiar to me. My Uncle Sam (Carr) was a team member, and I vaguely remember him talking about some of his team mates. How many do you remember?
Enjoy!
Finding photographs of the Zemps was a challenge. Despite their very successful 1949 season, I was only able to final a team photo of the 1951 team.
The Duquesne Hunky 
I’m trying to get in touch with Jim Connolly. I played on the Zemps with him in the 1970’s.
Didn’t know if anyone has pictures of the 1956-57 was Little League or news articles about them.
Thank you for any help.
Dannette Yarosik
I was trying to find Little League pictures or news articles of my husband’s time playing. His name is John Yarosik and he played from 1956-1957.
Thank you for any help.
Dannette Yarosik
Hi, I was looking through some of my older sports memorabilia, etc. and I found an original 8×10 team photo of the 1949 Duquesne Zemps. So, I googled “Duquesne Zemps” and found your interesting info. on them.
The zemps lasted until the late 70’s the reason the team ended should be known. But I would upset to many people if I told it like it really happened. I managed the team for its last two years. Went to Mckeesopt with half of the team when we folded and played for Les Roth.
I played for four different managers before I had to run the team. No one wanted to support the Zemps
I can’t remember why the team folded, but I was on the team with you Jim and proud to be your teammate. Please email so we can catch up. My brother and bring your name every time we’re in a bar and talk about the good old days.!!!!1
Remember the Ironmen? I remember when they built a wooden fence around the middle of the Polish Hill ball park for their football practices. They were pretty good early on. Dave Forgash, remember the time Bill Vizza drove me down to West Liberty to see you? He tried to get me to go there. I remember you were living in a house on a hill down there. I ended up going to school in South Dakota. Had a pretty good football career and graduated in 1970. 3 years ago I was somehow inducted into the college Hall of Fame. Don’t know how that happened. All I could do was catch passes and run pretty fast.
Ernie, we have some nice memories, yes, I remember the visit, nice of you to mention it. In a previous post I detailed how Bill Vizza did the same for me, he and his son Billy actually drove me to West Liberty, Vizza and I were very close. I applied and was accepted all in the same day played football and baseball graduated somehow and my life was altered for the better.
. Also close to Kope, (as were you) Donelli, and Chadonic. They were not coaching DHS at that time. My senior year the four of us ate lunch together many times. They would give me money for lunch meat and I would run down to Alexanders where my mother worked at Feigs Bakery, she would throw in a loaf of bread and I would run back to DHS where we would talk about all things including of course football strategy and tactics. DHS had dropped a few WPIAL CLASS levels due to the opening of West Mifflin North but we still had to play the same schedule, and as you know we got out scored and physically beat up every game but one. 1-9. The one game we won was on Koppe’ strategy. For example North beat us 45-19.
After the football season we would go to Babe’s bar on Friday for lunch Vizza joined in sometimes Ed Kliest who gave me the nickname Gash and they would buy my fish sandwich lunch.
In the summer Kope would pay me to trim the shrubs and trees around his home. He also one summer was painting the inside of a school where I worked on the playground corner of fifth and Kennedy, I have long forgotten the name of the school. There was an immigrant working along side Kope ( Koppe got him the job) who loved wrestling, so Kope paid for the guy and me to go to Forbes Field so he could fulfill his dream to see Bo Bo Brazil. That is how kind hearted Kope was. But put Kope on a football field (his element) and he was tough as nails and always a winner.
Nice to know you were a success on the field at Yankton SD and in business.
Hey Dave! Didn’t know you played football at West Liberty. Did you play QB there?
The only thing I remember about 5th and Kennedy was St Hedwigs. I remember the Jr high and Libengood on 6th. Just don’t remember a school on 5th.
Kope was crazy in a funny way. I remember my senior year when we opened against North, who won the WPIAL AA championship the year before. Anyway, Kope dedicated the game to his mother-in-law. Said her last words were, “…Beat North!” Pretty funny. We ended up pushing North all over the field and won going away 27-14. We had 3 TDs called back for penalties….80, 50, 102. I remember being slapped on the back by Coach Donelli after the game in what was a crazy locker room. He said it was the best Duquesne team he ever saw.
We had some great teams in college. Lost just 4 games in 4 years….3 to the same team. Small college football in the Midwest back then was an oxymoron. The teams were not only huge, but fast. Even though our school was small, we could play with anyone in any NCAA division using our 1st 22. After that, the shear numbers of quality subs on those other teams would have hurt us. 6 guys I played with went on to the NFL. Probably the most famous was Lyle Alzado. He was recruited as a RB…..6’1″, 190. Then he blew up on steroids. We stayed friends and spoke a lot right up until the final 6 weeks of his life. Quite a character.
Famous Bill Vizza quote, “Son, take that curve ball and throw it in the Monongahela river”.
Looks like the PGH ST in the last picture was down near Camp Ave from the MILL profile in the background. (DHS1953)
Ernie you were a great DHS football player, you could have played D1, I could not, how do I know….Kope told me so. I asked him what he thought and in his straight forward fashion, he told me you are good, but not great, you need to go to a small school. Donelli wrote a letter to his brother Buff at Columbia, they took one look at made grades and I was rejected. Then he wrote to Dave Maurer (who played for Donelli) at Wittenberg, so I visited the school and when the players asked what position I played, they laughed out loud as the legendary Gary Tranquil was the QB starter and best in the conference and my GPA did not cut it there either.
Did you guys refer to the PEAR (Donelli) and the BEAR (Kope), they knew it but we never said it when they could hear. I always had the greatest respect for both of them. I only lived a block away from the High School, so Donelli would hold the Grant Ave side door open for me many mornings as the bell rang so I would not be late..
Of course it helped when you played to have a Stevie Edwards on the DHS team …LOL.
WL had a variety of football players at different times we had Big 10 drop outs and transfers, one from West Point, Indiana, WVU, one year our center had played for the US Army football team, 2 defensive tackle easily 290 lb each. Along with some others with great athletic ability. Some only played a few years and dropped out, others went on to successful coaching and business careers. I was a back up QB as a freshman and would sneak on to the kick off team and make the tackle, gave the head coach fits when he saw the films as he was afraid I would get hurt. Eventually made my way on to the kick off team, we were also short on subs . Sophomore and Junior started as DB and loved the contact….. errr I mean position. Senior year had a new coach who wanted me to QB, did what I was told and split time with a Wheeling kid who had played for the new coach, but the best QB was a transfer from WVU and he never got to play. We had no doctor on the field, no ambulance. The WL enrollment at the time was less than1500 and more than half were female as WL is a well known Dental Hygenist school. More than half the students commuted each day, no one had any money. One time one our best players had his ankle X-rayed at the dental lab.
We were a close group of young men, our motto was “if we lost we still won” cause we we’re physical. We never told the coaches as that would have been poor sportsmanship. Some of our guys were plain out mean, like Lyle who I met when I lived in Cleveland. At that time he was scary. WL only had 2 noteable players make the NFL Mark Murphy Green Bay 1980-91 and Lou Piccone Jets and Buffalo 1974-82
Funny story, my country club and car racing partner Jim Mueller, was the voice of the Browns and did TV sports on Cleveland TV. He would host a post game show at a local restaurant and each time I was there he would introduce me as some famous sports personality or race car driver I would stand up wave and the crowd would applaud and cheer, everytime we talk we still laugh long and hard about those times.
We got homered down at Concord one year, led to a full scale riot, police had to escort us off the field and out of town, Concord fans came out of the stands to join the fight, coach punched out the criminal offending official and coach was fired. We had to forfeit, but we lived up to our motto. Twelve of us were called into the WL presidents office the following Monday to hear our side of the “fracas”, we got a good ear beating, promised not to do it again, so no one was kicked off the team.
The WL campus has changed a lot for the better in 51 years since I was there. Great facilities, great education opportunities, safe campus, lots of sports opportunities for men and women, Tuition is affordable, just a great little University, I still enjoy a vist back to campus to see the changes and just attended the WLU Florida Alumni Meeting.
I was wrong about the location of the school rooms Kope was painting that summer so many years ago, the elementary school was at Crawford and Fifth, I am certain it is gone like everything else in our old home town. All we have left are our friends and memories.
Hope you and yours are well.
Hey Dave!
Thanks for the comments. I knew I was fairly good and enjoyed speaking to some of the D1 recruiters from WVU, Purdue, Arizona St., and Nebraska. I was REALLY excited about Nebraska and the letterhead showing the Orange Bowl pictures, etc. Got pretty close to going there. Then I started thinking that I wanted to play for 4 years. At the time freshmen couldn’t play varsity ball. Plus, I didn’t want to sit for 4 years until the last game of my senior year when I’d get in the last game of the season for a couple of plays. Bob Madar and I talked about that and he told me his intention was to get a full ride to go to school and not play. He was convinced then he had heart problems, and he was correct! Never played a down at Pitt. So I took his advice into consideration and finally went out to South Dakota. In my mind it was THE best decision I ever made. I loved my time there.
I enjoyed your West Liberty stories. Didn’t know you played DB. But I do admire your spunk for sneaking on the field for Special Teams. Fun stuff. Crawford School. Gone. burns Heights. All gone. New homes built there. Cochrandale. Gone. Grant Avenue. Vacant. But they built a new high school gym some years back. Huge court. Sat 1,500. Still there. Last time I was back there I walked into the gym were they had little kids playing. seats were still 3/4 around the court. Must of been a fun place to be on game nights?
Yeah, we called Donelli “Pear”. Didn’t call Kope “Bear”, though. The guys from the Kremlin always said about hope, “…..Sumthins wrong with him….” like they all thought he was crazy. And he was. On Thursday night before our last game my senior year, he had us out on the field with the lights on. At the end of practice he had the managers start a fire in the end zone. He then had them open a tool box and take out individual cleats. He called each senior by name and then threw a cleat in the fire. He said this was our legacy. Then he made the seniors take a final jog around the field. Guys were crying. Me and Tret Lemak were jogging together laughing and talking about “sumthin” being wrong with Kope. Kope made everything a ceremony, no matter how silly.
forgash, remember the eagles? I played with you there, then summer ball with tubers. john koval
John,
Sorry just picked up your comment. Yes playing Legion Ball with you for the Eagles was a Great time, I remember it well. Hope you and yours are well. Always rember your family, particularly your Dad being some of our biggest supporters.
Also remember some others on the team over two years: Dave Webber, Jim Ragan, Drew Balog, Bob Takacs, Buddy Benedict, Bob Kane, Skip Massley, Denny Mihaley, sorry I can’t remember them all, Duquesne was combined with Munhall. But what a great time we all. Artim and Ballough were the coaches. After the home games we were all welcomed to the Eagles Club in our uniforms where refreshments were on the house.
Occasionally talk to Buddy Benedict. He lives in Knoxville near my son..
Ken
Just to let you know that Duke Dyakon was my uncle….I remember when I was growing up and watch him play….. Ron Dyakon of Lewes De….
Ron,
Played with Duke for a couple of years. Great pitcher and a super guy!!
Ken Denne
Just became aware of the Duquesne Hunky by my brother John. He and I grew up watching the Zemps play due to our father, Johnny Galvanek being a pitcher for many years. I recognize many of the names on the Zemps. One that hasn’t been mentioned was a first baseman named Jamison. If I remember correctly he was left handed and very tall.
To Dave Forgash, I am pretty sure you and I played little league baseball for the Pirates. Our coach was Red Muir. Let me know if I am mistaken.
I have a lot of reading to catch up on and will enjoy doing that. Keep up the good work, Duquesne Hunky.
We were in fact on the same Moose Pirates Little League Team with a total of 16 players. Red Muir was the Manager and Paul Artim was the coach I have a picture of the team sporting our jackets from 1957. Courtesy of the Moose members. (Steel Workers were Generous to us kids) Bajus, Kacey Kushner, Moran, Sabol, Zewe, Artim are some names I remember. In 1957 the Pirates were runner up in the City Championship representing the National League. Manager Andrew “Red” Muir could not get it in his head may name was Dave and always called me Dan, so you know when we got our jackets at the Moose Banquet, the name on my jacket was Dan and not Dave. I wore my jacket proudly any way.
The American league Coached by the Fabulous Barker Brothers (The Indians, as I recall) beat us 2 out of 3 games in 1957 at the second street field to win the City Title. Bill Ryczij, who went on to fame as a basketball player at Elizabeth-Forward was a good pitcher and in game one which the Pirates won, he pitched and I hit him like a pitching machine including a home run. Eicholtz pitched the second game and we lost a squeaker. Now the Barker Boys from Third street were very baseball savvy and coached the Indians. They went on to Coach me in the Duquesne Pony League. Ted Barker told Ryczij to load up on curves and pitch me on the corners. I had never seen anything like this before and could not hit him and must have struck out at least 3 times, Bill had great control pitched all 6 innings and the Indians won the Duquesne City Championship.
1957 was the first and only year the Duquesne Nationals went to Williamsport where we lost a couple games by one run and were eliminated. Just like Williamsport Little League today a bus load of Duquesne citizens made the trip to root for us.There was no TV coverage back then. Why I mention this is because if the Duquesne National and Duquesne American League had been combined as one team, we would have been unbeatable. That is how much natural baseball talent came out of our little town of Duquesne,PA.
As we have learned from this blog, there was plenty of talent in ALL sports from many decades that came out of Duquesne, many have been mentioned, like your Dad. We all know of many more but there are there far to many to mention but they are not forgotten. With little TV and no computer games, back then sports was a great alternative for a lot of dedicated young men and hard working coaches from Duquesne PA.
Give my best to your brother John. One day while while he and I were “hiking” in the Kennywood Woods, we came across a camp site and thought the fire was out. It was not, John some how stepped in it and the hot coals burned his foot up to the ankle. Fortunately your family lived in Duquesne Place at the time and together John and I struggled to your home, John leaning on me and hopping on one foot all the way home. John was off to the hospital. He did recover and probably still has the scars to prove it.
Dave,
Hope this note finds you in good health. Great Little League story, however, I was never a fan of Little League. In I949, I think, Chuck Petraitis was instrumental in getting Little League started in Duquesne. Paul Jugan and I were 6 months too old to play. 2 years later Pony League sarted and again we missed it by several months . While our peers were playing maybe once or twice a week, Paul, Ouchie Salopek and I spent hours every day on Polish Hill field batting fielding, etc. As a result, Paul and I had much more experience and we played 3 years with the high school and Legion leaving most of the former Little leaguers never playing organized ball..
Hi to John and Jim Galvanek. What a super Dad they had and I was fortunate to play with hin in his later years..
Dave, that’s another good story! I totally forgot about the jackets for the Duquesne “World Series” winners. Got mine in ’65 playing first base for the “Yankees” after we defeated the “Cardinals”. Tried to stretch a true triple into an inside the park grand slam but was tagged out at the plate by Ralph Lemak the catcher for the Cards. I loved that jacket, and like you, wore it proudly. Also, I never knew a Duquesne team went to Williamsport. However, after you played, they did combine the National and American leagues for the annual all-star games. In ’64 or ’65 we went to the Clairton tournaments and played a team from Finleyville with a red headed pitcher who I couldn’t seem to hit. During the tournament they had a brand new Cadillac on raffle down the left field line beyond the fence by the refreshment stand. Last a bat I was trying to get a jump on this pitcher and swung a little too early. Result, foul ball home run and one broken Cadillac windshield. Then the kid struck me out.
Played with your dad for a few years.. Great pitcher but a super guy !!
Loved your Zemps article. My husband and I have done considerable genealogy research so I’d like to fill in the info on the Zemplen origin. Zemplen (along with Spis, Saris and Uz) are counties in Eastern Slovakia nr Poland and Ukraine inhabited by Carpatho-Russians who emigrated to Western PA to work in the mines, and, if they were fortunate, better paying jobs in the steel mills. The Zemplens (the Carpatho-Russians) are Greek Catholic and would more than likely have attended Sts. Peter & Paul Greek Catholic Church (on First Street, then later off of Catherine St.) An interesting side note is the fact the Zemps played the famous Negro League team, the Homestead Greys. I’ve often thought that we had a unique experience living and interacting with people of different ethnic and racial makeups which perhaps informed who we are since, at that time, blacks had to form their own leagues to have the opportunity to play the game (until baseball was integrated) I smiled thinking of the truck driving around announcing a game.
THanks for sharing all of the info!
Your instincts about different ethnic and racial makeups in Duquesne remind me of so many things. I grew up next to the black Daniels family who owned the apartment building on Grant Avenue next door to the apartment we lived in. Over the years, I played ball every day with black kids from the many black familys living next door, Charles, Singletons, Love, Pitts, and the Settles, who lived behind us. John Moore taught me how to play chess. I was taught to always refer to the black parents as Mr. or Mrs.
In high school Mr. Edwards fed me at his apartment in Cochrondale Project, and his son Tim and I played on the DHS football team. I did not know what prejudice was, never heard the word back then. We had several black kids on the Little league Teams. There were no black kids on the my high school baseball team, no black kids on my Legion Baseball team, but the Zemps was a different story. Gary Christian was a great black player from McKeesport High and he had no where to play semi-pro baseball so I asked him to join the Zemps, which he did. He was an outstanding hitter playing first base and centerfield and helped us win the DNL 63 Championship. After that I played in the coal miner’s league in Ohio and West Virginia to be close to college and there were good black players on all those rugged teams. Then off to West Liberty State College and no black players on our baseball team, actually there were but a handful of black students in the school with an enrollment of about 1500. The black kids did play football, like Bob Douglas who went on to a great wrestling and coaching career, including the Olympics.
Now it is 1964 in St Joe, Missouri and West Liberty is in the finals for the NAIA championship and we have to beat Grambling College of Louisiana twice to win the title. Because of discrimination at colleges all across the USA at that time, Grambling ended up with some of the best black athletes in the country. Grambling was undoubtedly the best team we had faced in all my four years of playing college baseball. This all black team could pitch, hit, field, and throw just like the pros. Won’t bore you with the details but West Liberty, this little college from the hillside fields outside of Wheeling, West Virginia defeats Grambling twice, 6-4 and 3-2, and wins the NAIA Championship.
Four of the Grambling Players signed pro contracts and went on to pro careers. Three from West Liberty sign pro contracts, with only Joe Niekro having reached the majors.
I have always remained grateful to Bill Vizza my High School Baseball Coach for going the extra miles to get me into college. He actually drove me to West Liberty and lobbied the college to accept me to play Baseball and Football.
That’s my grandfather Sam Carr in the first row! It is so awesome to read things about him – thanks so much for finding and sharing these things! They are priceless!
Wow…that’s my dad in the first row. He always talked about playing with the Zemps but I never saw any pictures of him with the team. So nice to see this. Thanks, Jim.
Hi Jim,
FYI: Your brother, Steve, also pitched for the Duquesne Zemps for many years in the sixties.
Let’s go Buccos !
Lots of articles in the daily news..especially since it was the Daily News League that they com
peted in later on.
My father, George “Skinny” Pastrick, coached the Zemps when they competed in the Daily News League. My brother, David, played as well..he, too, was a catcher. My father also announced the games, at the field (for the pleasure of all the fans) as well as around town “THere will be a fast semi pro baseball game tonight…” Bucky Sable was also coaching with my Dad…. He loved the Zemps..My brother went on to play in College and earned all american .
I remember hearing as well as seeing your dad driving around Duquesne in his truck with the bullhorn on top announcing the upcoming Zemps game.
Who could ever forget George Pastrick. Not only
did he announce Zemp games. (Fast semi pro meant
7 innings) He also did Little League games
on second street and when the tornado hit
Duquesne in the 50’s he was on the front line driving his
sound truck around town and announcing to residents to stay in doors as there
were live wires laying around town. He showed outdoor
movies in the summer evenings at different schools
around town with the help of Tim Petrisko and his sons.
Skinny loved Duquesne and was part of a clique
that met on the benches in front of City Hall,
many “suggestions” were made by this influential group
of men and adopted by elected officials. Go against
them and your term in office could be in jeopardy as was
the case of one term Mayor Joe Sabol.
This group of influence did not ask for
anything and recieved nothing. They simply
hoped the best for Duquesne. Then as we
know the mills closed and the rest as we read in this blog is history.
Thank you for sharing your memories of my Dad. It fills my heart …and I never knew that “a fast semi pro baseball game” meant 7 innings. I use to feel really special sitting in that old “soundtruck,”as he called the old stationwagon, driving around town or sitting inside with him while he announced the games. I too loved summer movies and cartoons at the playgrounds. He loved Duquesne.. Thanks again….its always wonderful to hear others remember my Dad…I learned some things I didn’t know.
Let the record show that Mr. Forgash’s rewrites Duquesne’s history. Mayor Joseph Sabol moved on to run for a higher office and, as a minority party representative, almost became the first Slovak-American elected to the United States House of Representatives.
My mom & dad were avid Zemps fans. I remember attending games at Nick Lee Hollow with them. Also remember throwing stones into Nick Lee hollow creek. Wasn’t allowed to go down under the bridge because that’s where ” Chicago Mike” lived……….lol…
PS. Does anyone know who Nick Lee was?
Ron I’ve yet to discover who Nick Lee was. However, I have discovered that it was originally called Oliver’s Hollow. I would love to know why the change I’m name.
Bob , I have asked the same question , and Jim is looking into the history of the area , as well as some information on Nick Lee , the man. I believe that in the past there was a a large outdoor swimming pool made of railroad ties (maybe the 20’s or 30’s) and a set of stairs that went from the upper part of Hamilton (?) down to Nick Lee Hollow which people walked to get to Kennywood (and probably to work in the mill or on the railroad also) . . . I believe that there was a cintering plant somewhere up in Nick Lee Hollow and also The Grant Steel Scrap Company . . . please correct me if anyone has anything to add or correct to this information . . . Thanks !
Ron: Long time no see(circa 1965 Mcquire AFB in Jersey as I got out of a cab).Asked MIKE Sabol to get your number last time he went to Duquesne but he forgot. Our dinner in Mcquire was over 1/2 century ago.Time flies?Call me(6 hours earlier than PA) at (808) 931-3333 so we can catch up. Barry Long.
Interesting photo. You can see the spires of St, Joseph’s Church in the background. Sitting at the top of Grant Avenue, St. Joe’s dominated (and probably still does -if it hasn’t been razed) the city’s skyline. Judging from the fact that you can see the church in the background the picture was probably taken at the Polish Hill field. Before playing their home games at that site, the Zemps played their home games at the Nick lee Hollow field which sat below 2nd, 3rd and 4th streets. My favorite player was the catcher, Bobby Charmo, who I believe had a try out with the Pittsburgh Pirates
Outstanding Bob, that you were able to pick out the spires of Old St. Josephs.
My connection with the Zemps only went as far as being the paper boy for most of the supporters. I did enjoy the games though.
I read several names that are VERY FAMILIAR to me (who lived in The Annex, near Duquesne Fire Hall): Marino, petruski,Spanitz,ReaganBenedict,Marino,Galvanek. Went to Duquesne High for 10th grade the our WMNorth High was finished and was first grad. class from North. I am ADDICTED TO THIS INFO. I notice it is VERY SPORADIC AND I FOUND IT purely by accident from SIL’s FB page. Sent to my Bro Koe in Cal. He enjoyed it too. Keep up the GREAT SITE!!! As I said “it’saddictive(for me)!!
Jane Cappellano
I was fortunate to play with the Zemps in the mid and late fifties. Some of the players who were the early and champions Zemps I was fortunate to play with..Albie Ragan, Rudy SAchaffer, Tippy Spanitz, Happy Magdic, Johnny Galvanek, Duke Dyakon,Bobby Petrisko, Ducky Goltz, Bobby Kloska, et. al
Hi Ken, I watched the Zemps play for a number of years, probably until the late fifties. Hope all is well with you and your family.
Doing well, Sam, here in Wilmington, NC..Hope you and Charlotte are healthy in Hilton Head….
Sold our place in HHI and are back here in North Huntingdon. Doing very well.
Jim, Sent you a photo (of a photo) from the 1963 Daily News File photos highlighting the Duquesne Zemps team that won their 10th DNL Title beating The McKeesport Tigers to win the 63 title. Names of the players coaches and bat boys is included. Many great players and friends from the surrounding towns of Clairton, Blids, Cokers, Tubers made up the league in 63. What a great time we all had back then and no one even knew how to spell steroids. Possibly the photo is from the McKeesport Daily News.
Dave Forgash Catcher for the Zemps
On Aug 9, 2013, at 5:08 PM, The Duquesne Hunky wrote:
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When I was a kid, my dad and I attended many of the Zemps games at the old Nick Lee Hollow field.