From Today's Post-Gazette-
Plenty of baseball fans leave the room when they get too nervous about a ballgame. Bing Crosby (right), who was a part-owner of the Pirates in 1960, went a little farther.
He left for Europe.
"Bing liked to be casual,'' his widow, Kathryn Crosby, explained the other day when recalling how the couple spent Oct. 13 that year. "He didn't like to get his soul wrapped around the situation, and he knew the French were cool. If things didn't go our way, he could suffer in silence.''
So the Crosbys and friends listened on short wave in a Paris apartment. When Bill Mazeroski hit the home run to win the series for the Pirates, Der Bingle bungled. He tapped a Scotch bottle against the mantel and "started a conflagration.
"For a man who's supposed to be really cool,'' Mrs. Crosby said, "he lost it completely.''
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