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Sides pitch progress in '79 trophy dispute
Because the two sides have been making progress, a bankruptcy court judge yesterday gave both sides an additional month to resolve the matter before an hearing would to be held to determine ownership.
"I'm convinced there is a lot of good faith on both sides," said Allegheny Club attorney Scott Hare, adding that there remains only one bid on the trophy and memorabilia -- a $100,000 offer from a New York collector who he declined to identify.
Ownership of the trophy came into dispute after the decision to demolish Three Rivers Stadium, where the Allegheny Club had displayed the trophy for more than 20 years.
The club has included the World Series trophy in an inventory of memorabilia it intends to sell to satisfy creditors. The Pirates say the trophy and other memorabilia were loaned, not donated, to the club by the team's former owners, the Galbreath family.
Larry Silverman, the Pirates' general counsel, said yesterday the team believes that the trophy -- now on loan to the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum in the Strip District -- is the one that was given to the team upon winning the World Series in Baltimore.
Squire Galbreath, son of the late team President Daniel Galbreath, has said the trophy given out after the series' deciding seventh game is at his family's Darby Dan farm outside Columbus, Ohio. Galbreath has said he doubts his father would have given the second trophy to the club outright, but a faxed letter from Squire Galbreath to the club in 2001 seems to indicate the family's acknowledgement that Daniel Galbreath had donated it to the club.
The remaining members of the Allegheny Club merged with the Pittsburgh HYP Club last year to form the Allegheny HYP Club.
A third version of the trophy originally given to team captain Willie Stargell is now owned by a Michigan coin collector, who has approached both the team and the re-named Allegheny HYP Club about displaying his trophy somewhere in the city.
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