The slide : Leyland, Bonds, and the star-crossed Pittsburgh Pirates /
"In the deciding game of the 1992 National League Championship Series against the Atlanta Braves, the Pittsburgh Pirates suffered the most dramatic and devastating loss in team history when former Pirate Sid Bream slid home with the winning run. Bream's infamous slide ended the last game p...
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter One. The Decline and Fall of the Pirates Family: The 1980-1985 Seasons; Chapter Two. The Unknowns Syd Thrift and Jim Leyland: The 1986-1989 Seasons; Chapter Three. Leyland and Barry Bonds Lead the Way: The 1990 Season; Chapter Four. The Pirates Take on the Nasty Boys: The 1990 National League Championship Series; Chapter Five. Winning the Division, after Losing Sid Bream: The 1991 Season; Chapter Six. Too Much Steve Avery: The 1991 National League Championship Series; Chapter Seven. Barry Bonds's Last Hurrah: The 1992 Season.
- Chapter Eight. Sid Bream's Slide into History: The 1992 National League Championship SeriesChapter Nine. The Pirates Slide into History: The 1993-2010 Seasons; Chapter Ten. Hurdle, McCutchen, and the End of the Slide: The 2011-2013 Seasons; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.