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The Pittsburgh Alleghenies played their first National League game in 1887. Two years later, the team was renamed the Pirates after "pirating" second baseman Louis Bierbauer away from the Philadelphia Athletics.

first appeared: 1/16/2005

Exposition Park in Pittsburgh was the National League’s host for four games of the first World Series in 1903. The Boston Americans ultimately triumphed over the Pittsburgh Pirates in this inaugural baseball fall classic.

first appeared: 1/16/2005

The first golfer in LPGA history to break $5 million in career earnings was Betsy King, born in Reading in 1955. She has won 34 tournaments, including U.S. Opens in 1989 and 1990.

first appeared: 1/2/2005

Mario Andretti is the only racecar driver to win the Daytona 500 (1967), the Indianapolis 500 (1969) and the Formula One world title (1978). Born in Italy in 1940, he immigrated to Nazareth (pop. 6,023) in 1955.

first appeared: 12/19/2004

The American Anti-Slavery Society, the first national abolitionist organization, was formed in Philadelphia in 1833. At its core was the belief that slavery was illegal—if not under the Constitution, then by natural law.

first appeared: 12/5/2004

The career of racehorse Smarty Jones, born and raised in Chester County, nearly ended in 2003 when he fractured his skull while training to enter a starting gate. He recovered and went on to win the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes earlier this year.

first appeared: 11/21/2004

The 47-mile-long Pine Creek Gorge in Tioga County is called the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania. Its walls rise as high as 1,450 feet and display rock formations that are more than 350 million years old.

first appeared: 11/7/2004

Juniata College in Huntingdon (pop. 6,918) offers $1,000 to $1,500 scholarships to left-handed sophomores, juniors and seniors who demonstrate financial need.

first appeared: 10/24/2004

The Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society, founded in 1849, was the nation’s first skating club. Members were required to carry a roll of stout twine in the event a skater fell through the ice.

first appeared: 10/10/2004

Nickelodeons, which first opened in 1905 in Pittsburgh, began as small, family-run movie houses that charged a 5-cent admission.

first appeared: 10/3/2004

Born in Latrobe (pop. 8,994) in 1929, golfer Arnold Palmer was named Athlete of the Decade for the 1960s in a national Associated Press poll.

first appeared: 9/19/2004

Charles Darrow of Germantown, now part of Philadelphia, is credited with inventing Monopoly, America’s best-selling board game in 1935.

first appeared: 9/12/2004

A Madonna of the Trail monument, one of 12 such memorials nationwide, was dedicated in Beallsville (pop. 511) in 1928. The monuments honor the role of pioneer mothers.

first appeared: 9/5/2004

The National Road, which includes 90 miles of roadway through southwestern Pennsylvania, has been called “The Road that Built the Nation.” Historic sites along the route illustrate the story of America’s westward expansion.

first appeared: 8/29/2004

In 1913, Gulf Refining Co. opened the first service station for automobiles in Pittsburgh.

first appeared: 8/22/2004

In 1775, John Behrent of Philadelphia built the first piano in America.

first appeared: 8/15/2004

The Great Dane has been the official state dog since 1965.

first appeared: 8/8/2004

Mount Davis, with an elevation of 3,213 feet, is the state’s highest point.

first appeared: 8/1/2004

From mid-August to mid-December, some 20,000 hawks, eagles and falcons migrate over Hawk Mountain, drawing birdwatchers to the peak near Hamburg (pop. 4,114).

first appeared: 7/25/2004

To meet the demands of World War I, a shipyard—the largest in the world at the time—was built on Hog Island just offshore of Philadelphia in 1917.

first appeared: 7/18/2004

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