Random History Note of the Day…

So…I was browsing the interwebs today and stumbled on some notes about base coaches.  The blog Deadspin had a note on it about the lack of diversity among base coaches (minorities tend to coach first more than third – with 3B tending to be a higher position).  T’was an interesting note, but not too Pirates related.

The Pittsburgh note comes from the New York Times.  So it seems the Pirates actually hired the first African-American thirdbase couch in baseball history.  Gene Baker was hired for the position in 1963.

Thanks to Keith Olbermann (this blog’s namesake) for the research cited in the NYT’s post.