I was watching a game during the 2022 All American Amateur Baseball Association Tournament alongside two baseball icons at Johnstown’s Roxbury Park when one turned to me with a bold suggestion.
The playing surface at Sargent’s Stadium at the Point should be renamed Pete Vuckovich Field, he said.
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Joe Scheuermann (left), former New Orleans Boosters’ manager, shares a laugh with retired Major League Baseball pitcher and Johnstown native Pete Vuckovich during opening day of the AAABA Tournament at Roxbury Park in Johnstown on Monday, August 1, 2022.
By Thomas Slusser
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Mike Mastovich | ‘I need a big favor’: Vuckovich recalls receiving 1982 Cy Young call at now-demolished Iron Horse Hotel
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Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Pete Vuckovich, is pictured in action, Nov. 3, 1982. (AP Photo)
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Chip Minemyer is the publisher of The Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown, Pa.; The Daily Item of Sunbury, Pa.; and The Times-News, of Cumberland, Md. He can be reached at 814-532-5111. Follow him on Twitter @MinemyerChip.