Every last thing is counted.
At-bats, hits, innings pitched, ERA, OBP, WP, RBI, CG, D, T, GS, etc. Shoot, a mere few of the digits constantly kept and maintained on the game of baseball, a sport which counts everything between the lines and sometimes out because it all means something to someone somewhere. For decades, and until the Pirates 1979 world championship season, the book was diligently maintained by members of the club s media relations department. The volume cracked and completed on the 1971 Pirates the same year the Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour and All in the Family both hit America s televisions, sits a couple of hundred pages heavy. The right hand of former assistant Joel Schadys penned the tale of a 97-65 season, the same which witnessed Hall of Famers Roberto Clemente hit .341 and Willie Stargell swat 46 homers.