In the days when the National League was split into just East and West divisions with the winners advancing directly to LCS play, the Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates enjoyed a lively postseason rivalry. They met four times in the 1970s to settle the NL pennant and the Reds won three of those. The rivalry […]
The early 1990s were boom times for baseball in the city of Pittsburgh. They saw three straight division championship teams and the 1990 Pittsburgh Pirates were the team to start the run. Three years earlier Jim Leyland took over the managerial reins of a franchise in a mess that had not been relevant since it’s […]
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of sports history articles aimed at preserving the best moments of the modern sports era, from 1976 to the present. The focus is team sports—college & pro basketball and football, major league baseball and hockey.
This article offers a snapshot of 1990 sports, a year that saw a big upsets in the key NFL playoff games and complete college football chaos break out.