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ALTMIRE PAYS TRIBUTE TO CHUCK TANNER ON HOUSE FLOOR

ALTMIRE PAYS TRIBUTE TO CHUCK TANNER ON HOUSE FLOOR
 
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Today, U.S. Congressman Jason Altmire (PA-04) spoke on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to pay tribute to Pittsburgh Pirates manager and New Castle native Chuck Tanner. The text of Congressman Altmire’s remarks is below and a video is attached.

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the life of major league baseball player and manager Chuck Tanner, who died in his hometown of New Castle, PA in my district on February 11 at the age of 82. After hitting a home run in his first major league at bat in 1955, Tanner played eight seasons and later rose through the ranks to manage four major league teams, including the Pittsburgh Pirates who acquired him in a 1977 trade. It is in Pittsburgh where he reached the pinnacle of his baseball career in 1979, when he managed the Pirates to a World Series Championship.
 
“Following his retirement from baseball, Tanner returned to New Castle with his late wife Babs, his wife of 56 years. Tanner became a fixture at the New Castle restaurant that bears his name and where he ate nearly all his meals. Nearby the Shenango High School baseball field is also named in his honor. Chuck Tanner spent a lifetime in baseball and made friends and fans the world over, but it is in New Castle where he will be most fondly remembered and most sorely missed.”
 
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