![]() He remains involved in both Braves and Pirates alumni events. He does some corporate speaking and some Christian motivational speaking. Now 53 and still trim, Bream is working on completing his college degree, in general studies, from Liberty University (thus, a long-ago promise to his college coach will be fulfilled). ![]() That event, obviously, is something that's allowed me opportunities." "I can't sit here and name guys from a lot of World Series teams. "Most ballplayers go into obscurity," Bream says. ![]() Braves fans have detailed accidentally sticking hands through ceiling fans leaping up in jubilation. ![]() Pirates fans have described putting their fists through walls in fits of anger. People have told him of bets made in which they would have had to go streaking outside, around the house, if Pittsburgh had won that night. Stan Belinda, the Man Who Threw the Last Playoff Pitch for the Pirates, lives on a farm a few miles off of what passes for the main highway in this remote area. Café and Sports Bar in the tiny borough of Alexandria, Pa., population 346. Some 140 miles later you're parking outside the Main St. Now point the rental car east, cutting across the lush, rolling hills of central Pennsylvania. The slide that sucked the wind out of this city and sent its baseball rolling downhill, for good, for the next two decades. He is surrounded by white-tailed deer, his framed 1992 Braves World Series jersey and still, nearly every single day that he leaves the house, he is identified by someone for his triumphant Game 7 slide across the plate in the '92 NL Championship Series. PITTSBURGH - Start at PNC Park, the exact point on the compass that this year's Pirates will take the October baton from their 1992 predecessors and joyfully begin the task of melting ice hardened over 20 years of searing hardball pain and jumbled emotions.ĭrive due north, a mere 30 miles or so, and you're rolling up the driveway to Sid Bream's two-story, brick house atop a hill nestled in the woods. Sid Bream and the Braves celebrate after his winning slide in Game 7 of the 1992 NLCS. ![]()
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