Bob Veale, a Birmingham native who pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Boston Red Sox in the 1960s and 1970s, is shown outside Rickwood Field in Birmingham in 2003. Veale died this week at age 89. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Veale edged Bob Gibson for a National League-best 250 ... That was seconded by Buddy Henchen, who scouted Birmingham, and Veale was signed by general manager Joe Brown in 1958 after auditioning ...

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 ...