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in shutouts and a team that has one of baseball's best records -- and for a time the past few weeks, had the very best of all.
• Too many things have happened between Pittsburgh and its baseball team over the past 20 years to make expectations high -- or, more accurately, not enough has happened. But in this, the 21st year since the Pirates last finished with a winning record, the talk in restaurants and bars, on Little League fields and in the concession lines at PNC Park centers around some form of this tentative, hopeful question: Is this finally the year when things change?
• "It all feels new," says Manny Sanguillen, a catcher on the 1971 and 1979 World Series title teams who now runs a barbecue stand behind the ballpark's center field fence.
• "The fans, they're completely different this year. I walk down the street, they shout over at me. That wasn't happening (the) past few years," Sanguillen said before a game last week.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Monday, July 15, the 196th day of 2013. There are 169 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On July 15, 1913, Augustus Bacon, D-Ga., became the first person elected to the U.S. Senate under the terms of the recently ratified 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, providing for popular election of senators.
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• On this date:
• In 1870, Georgia became the last Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union. Manitoba entered confederation as the fifth Canadian province.
• In 1916, Boeing Co., originally known as Pacific Aero Products Co., was founded in Seattle.
• In 1932, President Herbert Hoover announced he was slashing his own salary by 20 percent, from $75,000 to $60,000 a year; he also cut Cabinet members' salaries by 15 percent, from $15,000 to $12,750 a year.
• In 1943, the Diligenti Quintuplets -- three girls and two boys -- were born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• In 1948, President Harry S. Truman was nominated for another term of office by (Continued on page 31)
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