But Willie Stargell was Paul Bunyan before McGwire. He hit two balls out of Dodger Stadium, ... Willie was already a star, and it was the first All-Star Game I ever started.

Star festivities, most importantly the 95th Midsummer Classic. The event returns to Atlanta, Georgia, four years after the ...

The original Stargell Stars were impossible to not notice, because they were big and they were canary yellow. As you can see in the image above, the new version is quite subtle.

Willie Stargell decided to award players with a gold star any time they had a good game or made a good play. While the stars weren't valuable, they were a symbolic acknowledgement of a player's ...

Willie Stargell, the big man who swung that huge baseball bat, never seemed taller than a few inches to me on my TV screen. ... “You wanted a star from Willie,” Blyleven said.

The Pirates have five World Series triumphs throughout their long history. They had come-from-behind 7-game victories over the Baltimore Orioles in 1971 and 1979 that were led by Roberto Clemente and ...

Clarke was a high-level hitter for the Pirates from 1900-11, but he was also the team's manager from 1900-15. Under — and ...

Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Stargell, who led the Pittsburgh Pirates to two World Series titles with tape-measure home runs and patriarchal leadership that earned him the nickname "Pops," died ...

Slugger Willie Stargell, the beloved ”Pops” of Pittsburgh`s 1979 World Series champions, marched through the pearly gates Sunday and, like other black stars before him, used the occasion to ...