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* 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
Chuck Klein repeated the feat nearly 40 years later to the day, on July 10, 1936, at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field.
The 1970 season was the last one that the Pittsburgh Pirates played in Forbes Field before moving to Three Rivers Stadium ; for Clemente, abandoning this stadium was an emotional situation.
The Pirates ' final game at Forbes Field took place on June 28, 1970.
He accomplished this historic baseball-event on July 25, 1956 in a 9-8 Pittsburgh win against the Chicago Cubs, at Forbes Field.
Near the old Forbes Field where he began his pro career the city of Pittsburgh has renamed a street in his honor.
* August 5 – The first radio baseball game is broadcast ; Harold Arlin announces the Pirates-Phillies game from Forbes Field over Westinghouse KDKA, in Pittsburgh.
Several now-demolished ballparks featured ivy in the playing area, including Forbes Field, Wrigley Field's namesake in Los Angeles, and Bush Stadium in Indianapolis.
It contains the towns of Wakarusa and Cullen Village and the greater portion of Forbes Field ( airport ).
Forbes Field Air National Guard base and airport is located south of Topeka near Pauline.
Before more modern football stadiums were built in the United States, many baseball parks, including Fenway Park, the Polo Grounds, Wrigley Field, Comiskey Park, Tiger Stadium, Griffith Stadium, Milwaukee County Stadium, Shibe Park, Forbes Field, Yankee Stadium, and Sportsman's Park were used by the National Football League or the American Football League.
* October 13-1960 World Series Game 7 at Forbes FieldPittsburgh Pirates player Bill Mazeroski becomes the first person to end a World Series with a home run, and still the only player to do it in the decisive seventh game.
* July 25 – Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente becomes the first ( and to date only ) player to hit a walk-off inside-the-park grand slam in a win over the Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh's old Forbes Field.
The other Federal League ballparks were demolished quickly, including the home of the Pittsburgh Rebels, Exposition Park, which had actually been the home of the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League until they moved into Forbes Field in 1909.
In the CD collection Ernie Harwell's Audio Scrapbook, issued in 2007, Mays talks about a running bare-handed catch he made at Forbes Field in 1951, in which the Giants ' players teased the young rookie by treating him with complete indifference when he returned to the bench.
* Forbes FieldPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
He can be seen at Citi Field during Mets home games, has appeared in several commercials as part of ESPN's This is SportsCenter campaign, and has been elected into the Mascot Hall of Fame .. On April 30, 2012, Forbes Magazine listed Mr. Met as the # 1 mascot in all of sports.
The no-hitter was the first in Pittsburgh since Nick Maddox at Exposition Park in ; none had been pitched in the 62-year ( mid-to mid -) history of Three Rivers Stadium's predecessor, Forbes Field.
Mazeroski's power numbers were held down by the distant fences in Forbes Field.
Today, a portion of the brick left field wall from Forbes Field remains standing on the University of Pittsburgh campus in Pittsburgh's Oakland District as a memorial ; locally, the wall is usually referred to as " Mazeroski's Wall.
He led the league in putouts four times, using his excellent speed to cover the spacious Forbes Field outfield.
For most of the period from 1927 to 1940, Paul patrolled right field at Forbes Field while Lloyd covered the ground next to him in center.
* Forbes Field ( 1960 )

Forbes and home
OutWeek, which had begun publishing in 1989, was home to activist and outing pioneer Michelangelo Signorile, who stirred the waters when he outed the recently deceased Malcolm Forbes in March 1990.
Other possible locations include Forbes House in Ham, London, the home of her maternal grandmother, Mrs Scott.
* Lancaster was the home of the first newspaper published by Malcolm Forbes in 1941
The postcode NW8 ( St. John's Wood ) was ranked by Forbes magazine as the 5th most expensive postcode in London and the United Kingdom, with an average home sale price of nearly £ 2 million ($ 3. 5 million ).
In September 2010, Forbes magazine placed Bradbury's zip code of 91008 at # 1 on its annual list of America's most expensive zip codes, with a median home price of $ 4, 276, 462.
According to Forbes Magazine, San Martin is rated as one of the country's most expensive zip codes with a median home price of $ 824, 390 in 2010, despite a drop in home value of almost 20 % from 2008.
according to Forbes Magazine It is now the most expensive home sale in the history of Miami-Dade County, eclipsing hedge fund billionaire Eddie Lampert ’ s nearby $ 38. 4 million Indian Creek Island purchase earlier that year.
Crooner Julio Iglesias's home also made news as being one of the Most Expensive Homes in the South according to Forbes Magazine back in 2006 at $ 28 million
It is home to Wabash College, which was ranked by Forbes as # 12 in the United States for undergraduate studies in 2008.
In 2012, Forbes ranked Alpine as America's most expensive ZIP code with a median home price of $ 4. 25 million, after being ranked 4th in the magazine's 2010 listing of " America's Most Expensive ZIP Codes ", with a median home price of $ 3, 814, 885.
In 2009, Forbes ranked Alpine first, along with Greenwich, Connecticut, with a median home price of $ 4. 14 million.
In 2010, Forbes. com listed Franklin Lakes as 146th in its listing of " America's Most Expensive ZIP Codes ", with a median home price of $ 1, 306, 546.
According to the Forbes 2010 survey of the most expensive ZIP codes in America, Ho-Ho-Kus ranked 268th nationally, with a median home price of $ 901, 841.
Forbes died in 1990 of a heart attack, at his home in Far Hills, New Jersey.
In 2008 Robyn Meredith of Forbes stated that the complex was " as shabby as ( Jet Airways CEO Nares ) Goyal's home is posh " and that the complex was " In need of a fresh coat of paint ".
Barney Dreyfuss " hated cheap home runs and vowed he'd have none in his park ", which led him to design a large playing field for Forbes Field.
The final three home runs of Babe Ruth's career were hit in Forbes Field on May 25, 1935 ; the third of these cleared the right field roof and was considered the longest home run in the park's history.

Forbes and Pittsburgh
On August 5, in a game won by Pittsburgh, 1-0, another Mays line drive did not elude the Pirates ' right fielder, thus preserving a scoreless tie, though leaving Clemente hospitalized, having crashed face-first into Forbes Field's right-centerfield fence at the 375-foot mark.
Towards the end of the year the Forbes Expedition seized the site of Fort Duquesne and began constructing a British settlement that would become known as Pittsburgh.
The only other team to do so prior to the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals in ( the new ) Busch Stadium had been the Pittsburgh Pirates, who won the 1909 World Series in Forbes Field's inaugural season ; and the Boston Red Sox, who won the 1912 World Series in Fenway Park's first year.
* a British military trail built in 1758 by General John Forbes of England from Chambersburg to Pittsburgh during the French and Indian War, later known as the Pittsburgh Road and the Conestoga Road
Much of the town's growth was due to its position as a transportation center, first as the starting point on the Forbes Road to Pittsburgh.
With the building of the Forbes Road to Fort Ligonier and, later, onward to Fort Pitt, present-day Pittsburgh, European settlement began in earnest.
Located along the Forbes road, a military road built under the command of Brigadier General John Forbes in 1758, the town became an important rest stop along the east-west route that eventually stretched from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh.
The travelers from Philadelphia took Forbes ' Road to Pittsburgh, where they could travel west on the Ohio River.
Some closeups were filmed there for insertion into the 1951 film Angels in the Outfield, a film otherwise set at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh.
The Crumbling Wall was a non-denominational coffeehouse run by the Lutheran Church on Forbes Avenue, across from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
By 1992, Pittsburgh Filmmakers was operating four buildings — the equipment facility at 205 Oakland, a classroom and editing facility at 218 Oakland, administrative offices around the corner at 3712 Forbes, and the Theater Annex in the historic Fulton Building at 101 Sixth Street downtown.

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