...and, since nobody has mentioned the splendid 1960 Pirates lately, must note that we are coming up on the sixth anniversary of the death of Mickey Vernon, my first baseball hero, Nats 1B, two-time AL batting champ, and a player-coach with that Pirate team. I think Mickey was about 42 in 1960. Hit .293 at age 40, playing in 119 games in 1958.