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Entertaining and informing listeners with stories of people and events in the history of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, hosted by Mark Smith.Copyright 2026 Pennsylmania 世界
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  • The Pittsburgh Lineup Card (Ep17)

    The Pittsburgh Lineup Card (Ep17)
    2026/07/21
    On September 1, 1971, something unusual happened at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh. The game that night – between the Pittsburgh Pirates and their home-state rivals, the Philadelphia Phillies – started at 8:05pm when Dock Ellis, the Pirates’ pitcher, strode to the mound. From where he stood, he could have looked from the outfield to the infield to the catcher and noticed that every one of his starting teammates was Black or Latino, including superstars Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell. Twenty-four years after Jackie Robinson first took to the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Major League Baseball began racially integrating, the Pirates were the first team who fielded a starting roster consisting of players who would have been kept from playing in the MLB based on their skin color. Oddly enough, the historic nature of the lineup was scarcely noticed at the time. But as time went on, it became clear that it was a pretty big deal. Timestamps for major events/discussions: [02:33] – Why were Black players, in effect, banned from baseball? [05:26] – Jackie Robinson debuts [07:13] – Quotas to limit players of color on a team [10:01] – Introducing Roberto Clemente [13:40] – Branch Rickey moves from the Dodgers to the Pirates [20:50] – The 1960 World Series [25:43] – Baseball and the Pirates in the 1960s [29:12] – Introducing Dock Ellis [31:34] – Baseball and the Pirates in 1971 [36:23] – Pittsburgh in 1971 [39:05] – The game – September 1, 1971 [52:52] – The 1971 World Series [54:35] – The economics of baseball in the 1970s [1:00:22] – Books and films that inspired this episode Total run time: 1:03:11 Sources that inspired this episode: • The book Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero, by David Maraniss, Simon & Schuster, 2006 • The book The Team That Changed Baseball: Roberto Clemente and the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates, by Bruce Markusen, Westholme Publishing, 2006 • The documentary Clemente, directed by David Altrogge, 2024 • The film No No – A Dockumentary, directed and produced by Jeffrey Radice, 2014 Calls to action: • Follow us on Instagram to learn when new episodes drop or to be a part of our chat community IG: pennsylmaniapod • Join our email list to receive news on the podcast by emailing us at producer@pennsylmania.com • Provide feedback on this episode, or give us ideas for new episodes, by emailing us at producer@pennsylmania.com Link to website: www.pennsylmania.com
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  • The Live Aid Concert (Ep16)

    The Live Aid Concert (Ep16)
    2026/07/07
    On Monday, June 10, 1985, at press conferences in London and New York City, it was announced that in just one month’s time there would be a 17-hour, two-stadium, bicontinental benefit concert for famine relief in Ethiopia, to be called Live Aid. It was organized by Irish musician Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats and would feature a “global jukebox” of over 40 of the top stars and groups in British and American music, from Mick Jagger, Elton John, Freddie Mercury and Queen, David Bowie and Phil Collins, to The Cars, Hall & Oates, Eric Clapton, Sting, Dire Straits, and Duran Duran. Not only were the suddenness and scale of the event a shock, but the choice of American venue was as well. The American Live Aid concert was to be held in JFK Stadium in South Philadelphia – a space that could hold 100,000 people. Live Aid became the most famous and most watched concert in history, and half of it happened in Pennsylvania. Timestamps for major events/discussions: [03:26] – The BBC broadcasts a program on a famine in Ethiopia [05:08] – “Do They Know It’s Christmas” written and recorded in London [07:00] – “We are the World” written and recorded in Hollywood [10:48] – Why Philadelphia was picked as the host for the Live Aid Concert [13:39] – The challenge getting American performers, black and white [20:56] – The day before the concert [23:42] – Saturday, July 13th, concert day [28:01] – The full line-up of performers at JFK Stadium [36:02] – Immediate aftermath of the concert [38:39] – Legacy of Live Aid Calls to action: • Follow us on Instagram to learn when new episodes drop or to be a part of our chat community IG: pennsylmaniapod • Join our email list to receive news on the podcast by signing up at our website www.pennsylmania.com • Provide feedback on this episode, or give us ideas for new episodes, by emailing us at producer@pennsylmania.com • Watch the broadcast of Live Aid, available on DVD and in clips on YouTube, and/or one of many subsequent documentaries about the concert. Link to website: www.pennsylmania.com
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    46 分
  • Hess's of Allentown (Ep15)

    Hess's of Allentown (Ep15)
    2026/06/23
    This is the story of the Pennsylvania department store that for several decades was more well known and more glamorous than the city in which it was located – Hess’s of Allentown. The brothers Hess founded their dry goods store in Center City Allentown in 1897. By 1929, it had grown to become a large department store at the same location. By this time, both Hess brothers had died, leaving Max Hess, Jr., their 18-year-old heir. Max, Jr, would turn out to be one of the most innovative and successful American merchandisers of the 20th century, making Hess’s a luxe shopping destination that, at one point, had the highest per capita sales volume of any department store in America. The store was famous for its models, European couture, in-store restaurant, annual events like the flower show, television programming, the hundreds of fashion shows they organized and exported, and their canny way of securing publicity. In the 1970s and 80s, after Max Hess, Jr, had sold Hess’s lone department store and died in 1968, Hess’s became an iconic department store chain, growing rapidly to the point that, in 1990, there were 76 Hess’s stores overall, 27 of which were in Pennsylvania. This growth occurred during a time when the City of Allentown and the Lehigh Valley were suffering an intense period of economic decline due to de-industrialization and factory closures. A retail recession in the 90s led to an abrupt collapse of the department store chain and, by 1995, no Hess’s remained. This episode ends with a list of surviving department store buildings in major cities of the Commonwealth.
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    58 分
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