Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh was an American city where the baseball team the Pittsburgh Crawfords played in the early 20th century. (PROSE: Illegal Alien) The American Lieutenant Wiesniewski recalled trying to sneak into the ballpark in Pittsburgh without buying a ticket before he left to fight in World War II. (PROSE: Autumn Mist)
According to an essay written by Bill Potts for her astrophysics class at St Luke's University with the Twelfth Doctor, modern ideas on cosmic far ultraviolet background emerged in 1978 at the Pittsburgh Conference on BL Lac Objects. (TV: The Pilot)
Behind the scenes
- At least in the real world, Pittsburgh is located in Pennsylvania.
- Although in the real world the city's spelling was standardised as Pittsburgh about a century earlier, Bill's essay in The Pilot spells Pittsburg without the letter H. Since the word "conference" was also misspelled and other sources give the city's name as Pittsburgh, this article assumes the Pittsburg spelling was an error.
- Autumn Mist does not specify which baseball team's games Wiesniewski would sneak into, but in the real world the city had multiple professional teams. In addition to the Pittsburgh Crawfords mentioned in Illegal Alien, the Homestead Grays and Pittsburgh Pirates also played in Pittsburgh in the years leading up to World War II.
