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The Pittsburgh Pirates are an American professional baseball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Pirates compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division. The Pirates play their home games at PNC Park; the team previously played at Forbes Field and Three Rivers Stadium, the latter of which was named after its location near the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers. Founded on October 1. The Pirates are also often referred to as the . The Pirates have had many ups and downs during their long history, most famously winning the 1. World Series against the New York Yankees on a game- winning walk- off home run by Bill Mazeroski, the only time that Game 7 of the World Series has ever ended with a home run, still to this day. They also won the 1. World Series, led by the talent of Roberto Clemente, and the 1. World Series under the slogan . Overall, the Pirates have won five World Series and lost two. However, the first two NL pennants they won, as stated above, were in 1. World Series.)After a run of regular- season success in the early 1. East Division titles), the Pirates struggled mightily over the following 2. They would then advance to the NL Division Series round, where they lost in 5 games to the St. The Pirates would continue their success and make the playoffs in both 2. Wild Card Game both times. Franchise history. The teams of the era were . The team was listed as . After five mediocre seasons in the A. A., Pittsburgh became the first A. ![]() ![]() A. At this time, the team renamed itself the Pittsburgh Alleghenys. At that time, owner- manager Horace Phillips sold the team to Dennis Mc. Knight; Phillips stayed on as manager. The Players' League collapsed after the season, and the players were allowed to go back to their old clubs. However, the Alleghenys also scooped up highly regarded second baseman Lou Bierbauer, who had previously played with the AA's Philadelphia Athletics. Although the Athletics had failed to include Bierbauer on their reserve list, they loudly protested the Alleghenys' move. In an official complaint, an AA official claimed the Alleghenys' signing of Bierbauer was . Although the Alleghenys were never found guilty of wrongdoing, they made sport of being denounced for being . Around the time the team adopted the Pirates nickname, the United States Board on Geographic Names forced the city of Pittsburgh to undergo a controversial name change by having them drop the . They again won the NL in 1. Welcome to the site of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Find news, videos, schedules, team roster, and fan forums. LEGO set database: Pirates. Site Statistics There are 13878 items in the Brickset database. Brickset members have written 37777 set reviews. 7432 members have logged in in the last 24 hours, 15967 in the last 7 days, 24328 in the last month. The Official Site of Major League Baseball. Bring home MLB's defining moments from 2016, featuring picture perfect snapshots of the Cubs' historic World Series win and David Ortiz's Fenway farewell. Pirates Singles Bucaroos Kids Club PNC Park PNC Park PNC Park Ballpark Information Amenities Map Parking and Directions PNC Park Tours Plan Your Special Event Panoramic 360-Degree Views Bradenton, Florida Latin America More Overview 3D Seating. ![]() World Series in 1. After a slow period, they returned to dominance and won the 1. World Series, 1. 97. World Series and 1. World Series. They won Eastern Division titles from 1. This made the Pirates the fourth MLB team to achieve this distinction, following the Philadelphia Phillies, Atlanta Braves, and Chicago Cubs. During the period of two- division play (1. National League East division rivals won the two highest numbers of division championships, reigning almost exclusively as NL East champions in the 1. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers (with the The Sausage incident and the 'You can steal first' game) and the Chicago Cubs (with the Homer in the Gloamin' and most recently, the 2. NL Wild Card game). The intensity of the rivalries often depend upon the competitiveness of the teams involved during that season. Current roster. Frick Award recipients. Frick Award recipients. Affiliation according to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Names in bold received the award based primarily on their work as broadcasters for the Pirates. Team captains. The Pirates won the game 8. These helmets resembled a primitive fiberglass . This was the mandate of general manager Branch Rickey, who also owned stock in the company producing the helmets. Under Rickey's orders, all Pirate players had to wear the helmets both at bat and in the field. The helmets became a permanent feature for all Pirate hitters, but within a few weeks the team began to abandon their use of helmets in the field, partly because of their awkward and heavy feel. Once the Pirates discarded the helmets on defense, the trend disappeared from the game. The only other team to meet this feat is the Toronto Blue Jays in 1. In 1. 97. 0 the Pirates became the first major league club to create their uniforms using a cotton- nylon blend featuring pull- over shirts and beltless pants. In this case, however, it was Game 4 between the Pirates and the Baltimore Orioles, rather than a decisive Game 7. Apparently, good things happen for the Pirates on this date, as they knotted the '7. Series at two games apiece on their way to their fourth title. The first MLB scout to win the . Pinch- hitter. Mark Smith's three- run walk- off home run in the bottom of the 1. Pirates. It remains the only such no- hitter to date. This streak lasted from 1. This is the longest such streak in North American professional sports history. The Pirates are the first MLB team (as well as only second in major professional sports) to be owned by an openly gay owner, although Kevin Mc. Clatchy had already divested his shares in the Pirates when he openly announced his homosexuality in September 2. The triple play occurred during a 7. The play occurred when the Cardinals' Yadier Molina lined out to Pittsburgh second baseman Neil Walker. Walker then threw to third baseman Jung Ho Kang to double off the Cardinals' Jhonny Peralta for the second out. Kang then threw the ball back to Walker, who was standing on second base. On September 2. 1, 1. Pirates were the first MLB team to have an African- American manager in Gene Baker, as he filled in for Danny Murtaugh. Many surveys have backed up this finding as well. While the team was ranked first in Pittsburgh as recent as the late 1. The event is, in essence, a baseball carnival for the whole family. It features autograph sessions from current and former Pirates players and coaches, live events and games, carnival booths, baseball clinics, . Piratefest is held at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in downtown Pittsburgh. KDKA first broadcast the Pirates on August 5, 1. Westinghouse foreman Harold Arlin behind the mic. Broadcasts ended in 1. Except for a few years on WWSW in the late 1. Pirates were on KDKA for 6. KDKA's 5. 0,0. 00- watt clear channel enabled Pirates fans across the eastern half of North America at night to hear the games. That changed for the 2. Pirates moved to FM talk radio station WPGB. The Pirates cited the desire to reach more people in the 2. The acquisition of the rights means that Clear Channel Communications holds the rights to every major sports team in Pittsburgh. The Pirates have long had a radio network that has extended across four states. Stations for the 2. Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and Maryland radio broadcasters. It was speculated that the club's radio broadcasting rights would likely be transferred back to CBS Radio via FM sports radio station KDKA- FM. There has been no over- the- air coverage of the Pirates since 2. WCWB. KDKA- TV aired Pirates games for 3. Games aired on WPXI (1. After the departure of play- by- play announcer Tim Neverett, who accept a play- by- play radio position with the Boston Redsox. Former Pirates closer. Kent Tekulve, a member of the team's 1. World Series Championship team, serves as a post- game analyst for the team on Root Sports Pittsburgh. On October 1, 2. 00. Lanny Frattare retired after 3. Pirates' games since the 1. He is the longest- tenured announcer in Pirates' history, surpassing the man he replaced, the late Bob Prince (2. It was adopted in 1. Aside from style changes in the cap itself, the . In 1. 94. 8, the team broke away from the patriotic . While they were not the first baseball team to do this, they were one of the first to do this permanently. Along with the San Francisco Giants, the Pirates are one of two pre- expansion National League teams that completely changed their colors, although red returned as an . While not an innovation by the team (that honor goes to the Cincinnati Reds), the Pirates did help to popularize the look. The team brought back the vested jerseys in 2. However, they kept the pinstriped sleeveless vest for Sunday home games. To coincide with the move into Three Rivers Stadium in 1. The Pirates ditched the pullover style in favor of the traditional button- down style in 1. The Pirates were also innovators in third jerseys. Even though it would be the Oakland A's that would beat them to having such jerseys, the Pirates, by 1. They would actually rotate (and sometimes mix, with painful results) these styles daily until returning to the basic white and gray uniform ensemble in 1. In 1. 97. 6, the National League celebrated its 1. To coincide with it, certain NL teams wore old- style pillbox hats complete with horizontal pinstripes. After the season, the Pirates were the only team to adopt the hats permanently, (alternating between a black hat and a gold hat for several seasons until keeping the black hat in 1. Barry Bonds rookie season with the team. The hats, which recall the team's last World Series championship season (1. The 2. 01. 3 season marked the last of one of the team's former logos, introduced in 1. Kevin Mc. Clatchy took over the team. The Pirates chose to use the . It was worn on every Thursday home game during the 2. On February 1. 8, 2. Pirates unveiled a new throwback alternate uniform in the style of the 1. This uniform features yellow jerseys and old- style pillbox hats. It will be worn on every Sunday home game during the 2. The Team That Changed Baseball: Roberto Clemente and the 1. Pittsburgh Pirates. ISBN 1- 5. 94. 16- 0. Mc. Collister, John (1. The Bucs!: The Story of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Lenexa: Addax Publishing Group. The Beer and Whisky League : The Illustrated History of the American Association. Guilford: The Lyons Press. In- line citations^ abhttps: //books. Denny. Pittsburgh. Retrieved December 5, 2. The Team- by- Team Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball. New York City: Workman. Retrieved June 1. Pirates (@Pirates) on Twitter.
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