Bob Veale, the towering, hard-throwing left-hander from Birmingham who was an All-Star pitcher with the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1960s, has died. He was 89. Veale’s death was confirmed to AL ...

Young Bob played on sandlots in Birmingham with white friends during the Jim Crow era. “We didn’t know we were breaking segregation laws,” Veale told Allen Barra, the author of “Rickwood ...

One of the most intimidating pitchers of the 1960s, credited with inventing a popular baseball saying, has reportedly passed ...

Former Pittsburgh Pirates World Series champion pitcher Bob Veale has died, the team announced Tuesday. He was 89. Veale, a ...

Longtime Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Bob Veale, who helped the franchise win ... the Negro Southern League Museum in his hometown of Birmingham in 2015. Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage ...

Longtime Pirates broadcaster Bob Prince had a nickname for Bob Veale’s fastball: a “radio ball.” Why did it get that moniker? Well, you could hear it, but you couldn’t see it. Veale and that radio ...

Bob Veale, a left-handed pitcher and veteran of ... when he served as a bat boy and a batting practice pitcher for the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues. (His father, Robert, had ...

Two-time All-Star Bob Veale passed away, the Pirates announced on Tuesday. He was 89. Veale, a Birmingham native, signed with the Pirates out of college in 1958. He spent parts of five seasons in ...

Bob Veale, a left-handed pitcher ... a long-time friend of Veale, who lived in Birmingham, Ala. following his baseball career. Born Robert Andrew Veale in Birmingham on Oct. 28, 1935 and grew ...

Two-time All-Star Bob Veale passed away, the Pirates announced on Tuesday. He was 89. Veale, a Birmingham native, signed with the Pirates out of college in 1958. He spent parts of five seasons in ...