Giuseppe+Di+Antonio

Antonio was born in 1874 in Sicily,Italy. His family had been farming for generations untill his parents decided to migrate to the United States with him and his three older brothers. They came through New York in 1882 when he was 8 years old. His parents then decided to move to Pittsburg where they had family and where they knew they could get jobs in steel factories owned by [|Andrew Carnegie] and coal mines. Both of his parents and his brothers, although it was [|child labor,] all worked at mines near the district or at factories inside the city but left Antonio without forcing him to work. This gave him a lot of free time which let him do basically whatever he wanted during the day. He quickly learned the ways of the city and became adept at petty theft. He used these skills to get things like [|baseball cards], which was a sport he was falling in love with and playing with other kids from the area. Antonio was always the spoiled one in the family and was never forced to work until he was 17 and in 1891 tried out for the Pittsburg Pirates (formerly the [|Alleghenies]) baseball team. Antonio quickly becomes a starter for his team which had finished in last place the year before. Unfortunately he didnt help much and they got last in 1891 again. Then in 1893 while playing the Chicago Colts Antonio was lucky enough to visit the [|World's Columbian Exposition]. For the next couple of years Antoio got to travel to cities like Boston, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Lois, Philidelphia, New York, Cleveland, Detroit, and Washington. During his many trips he came to realize that Pittsburgh was the greatest city, partly because he fell in love with his wife, Beth James. Then in his last and final season as a professional baseball player, after 18 years and at the age of 35, in 1909 he got to finally win his first, and the franchises first world series in the newly made [|Forbes Field] where he meets a photographer named Stanley Jacobs. Sntonio and his wife move back to (insert city given to me) where Beth, who has been pregnant for some time has to twin sons who are named Mario and Luigi. Then at the age of 36 Antonio suffers cardiac arrest due to an enlarged heart and dies.

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