On Steve Blass’ 77th birthday, I drove to Falls Village, Conn., his hometown, to see what I could see and honor the man who middle-aged Bucco fans still worship, writes SpikeVrusho. @MoustacheClubUS, @TomJoyceSports.https://www.splicetoday.com/sports/the-blass-is-half-full#.XL28K935D1M.twitter …
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This is a great piece, evocative of a little town of the sort that would be a true outlier were it in rural western Penna. The closest we got to this was when you went further north and east, to clean, faintly colonial places like "Ligonier" and "Bedford Springs."
"Where the methodists and episcopalians live," my father would tell me, as if that explained why the towns weren't filled with shacks, lean-tos, carports, and seedy dive bars that doubled as 'inns' for the old miners and steelworkers who lived above them.
