The statistics hardly indicated that the Pirates needed extra batting practice, but Murtaugh also turned his men loose at Busch Stadium yesterday.

The Indians also have a rivalry with the Pittsburgh Pirates, as the two teams play an annual three game series during interleague play in June, playing in Cleveland during even numbered years, and in Pittsburgh in odd number seasons.

The Pirates of Penzance ( New Year's Eve, 1879 ) also poked fun at grand opera conventions, sense of duty, family obligation, the " respectability " of civilisation and the peerage, and the relevance of a liberal education.

Nevertheless, Pirates was a hit both in New York, again spawning numerous imitators, and then in London, and it became one of the most frequently performed, translated and parodied Gilbert and Sullivan works, also enjoying a successful 1981 Broadway revival by Joseph Papp.

On August 13, 2011, in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Brewers also wore a special uniform to commemorate German Heritage Day.

The Pirates are also often referred to as the " Bucs " or sometimes the " Buccos " ( derived from buccaneer, a synonym for pirate ).

The team also returned to the AA in 1890, as the Toledo Maumees ( some sources say their nickname was the Black Pirates ).

The city also sports one semi-professional team, the Peotone Pirates.

Pirates were also depicted as always raising their Jolly Roger flag when preparing to hijack a vessel.

Two shortened variations, " Bucs " and " Buccos ", are also commonly used for both the American football team and MLB's Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Reading Buccaneers Drum and Bugle Corps.

Idle is also writer and star of the 3-D film film Pirates – 4D for Busch Entertainment Corporation.

The Bruins protested this color change, claiming a monopoly on black and gold, but the Penguins defended their choice by stating that the NHL Pirates also used black and gold as their team colors, and that that black and gold were Pittsburgh's traditional sporting colors.

He also loved movies and the theatre ( he met his future wife when she was performing Ruth in the The Pirates of Penzance ).

* Ireta — A planet in Anne McCaffrey's Planet Pirates series, inhabited by both people and dinosaurs, and so also called Dinosaur Planet – the name of the novel in which it first appears.

The Temple orange, which is also called the tangor, is a cross between the mandarin orange — also called the tangerine — and the common sweet orange ; it was named after Florida-born William Chase Temple, one-time owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates and founder of the Temple Cup.

* It is also the birthplace of Clint Hurdle, a former baseball player for the Kansas City Royals and current manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Their main rival is the Pandora-Gilboa Rockets, though the Bluffton Pirates and Ada Bulldogs are also considered rivals.

Portsmouth is also home to the Portsmouth Pirates, the town's soccer league.

Aberdeen is also the home port of the tall ship Lady Washington, a reproduction of a smaller vessel used by the explorer Captain Robert Gray, featured in the Pirates of the Caribbean film The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Bethesda is also known for publishing titles based upon popular movie franchises, including The Terminator, Star Trek and Pirates of the Caribbean.

" That year Pryce also landed a role in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, where he portrayed a fictional Governor of Jamaica, Weatherby Swann, a movie he described as " one of those why-not movies ".

In 1987, the company released Sid Meier's Pirates !, which also began a trend of placing Meier's name in the titles of his games.

Brooke is also featured in Flashman's Lady, the 6th book in George MacDonald Fraser's meticulously researched Flashman novels ; and in Sandokan: The Pirates of Malaysia ( I pirati della Malesia ), the second novel in Emilio Salgari's Sandokan series.

He was the Pirates ' primary second baseman from 1971 to 1973, but his playing time was reduced somewhat by military service commitments and by the presence on the team of veteran second baseman Bill Mazeroski and rising star Rennie Stennett.

The next offseason, he returned to the Pirates for a salary that was significantly reduced from the $ 3. 125 million he earned in 1994.

On August 5, in a game won by Pittsburgh, 1-0, another Mays line drive did not elude the Pirates ' right fielder, thus preserving a scoreless tie, though leaving Clemente hospitalized, having crashed face-first into Forbes Field's right-centerfield fence at the 375-foot mark.

The 1970 season was the last one that the Pittsburgh Pirates played in Forbes Field before moving to Three Rivers Stadium ; for Clemente, abandoning this stadium was an emotional situation.

The Pirates ' final game at Forbes Field took place on June 28, 1970.

The only other team to do so prior to the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals in ( the new ) Busch Stadium had been the Pittsburgh Pirates, who won the 1909 World Series in Forbes Field's inaugural season ; and the Boston Red Sox, who won the 1912 World Series in Fenway Park's first year.

These included two companies touring with Patience, two touring with other Gilbert and Sullivan operas, one touring with the operetta Olivette ( co-produced with Charles Wyndham ), one with Claude Duval in America, a production of Youth running at a New York theatre, a lecture tour by Archibald Forbes ( a war correspondent ) and productions of Patience, Pirates, Claude Duval and Billee Taylor in association with J. C. Williamson in Australia, among other things.

* October 13-1960 World Series Game 7 at Forbes Field – Pittsburgh Pirates player Bill Mazeroski becomes the first person to end a World Series with a home run, and still the only player to do it in the decisive seventh game.

* July 25 – Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente becomes the first ( and to date only ) player to hit a walk-off inside-the-park grand slam in a win over the Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh's old Forbes Field.

The other Federal League ballparks were demolished quickly, including the home of the Pittsburgh Rebels, Exposition Park, which had actually been the home of the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League until they moved into Forbes Field in 1909.

Roy Worters made 70 saves for the Pirates and Jake Forbes made 67 saves for the Americans.

Forbes Field, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates from the middle of the 1909 season until the middle of the 1970 season, is the only long-term home field where a no-hitter was never thrown during its existence.

The Pirates opened Forbes Field on June 30, 1909 against Chicago Cubs, and would play the final game also against the Cubs on June 28, 1970.

The Pirates won three World Series while at Forbes Field and the other original tenant, the Pittsburgh Panthers football team had five undefeated seasons before moving in 1924.

Official Pirates ' records show that Forbes Field cost US $ 1 million for site acquisition and construction, however some estimates place the cost at twice that amount.

Following a plan to expand their adjacent campus, the University of Pittsburgh purchased Forbes Field in 1958, with an agreement to lease the stadium to the Pirates until a replacement could be built.

Pirates Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente played fifteen seasons at Forbes Field.

In 1909, Forbes Field's opening season, the Pirates beat the Detroit Tigers in the World Series.

On May 25, 1935, at Forbes Field, Babe Ruth hit the last three home runs of his career as his Boston Braves lost to the Pirates, 11-7.

" The Pirates would rebound to gain their first ever franchise victory a week later at Forbes Field, against the Chicago Cardinals.

The NFL's Pirates were renamed the Steelers in 1940, and otherwise struggled during much of their three-decades of tenancy at Forbes.

The Pirates and the New York Giants, who were playing at Forbes Field, were called into their dugouts while the 24, 738 fans in attendance listened to the radio broadcast of the hour-long bout.

By the 1920s with increasing popularity in the Pittsburgh region, the team retained the name " Homestead " but crossed the Monongahela River to play all home games at both the Pirates home Forbes Field and Pittsburgh Crawfords home Greenlee Field both in Pittsburgh.

From the late 1930s through the 1940s, the Grays played their home games at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The Pittsburgh Pirates played their home games at Forbes Field, which opened in 1909, and was the oldest venue in the National League ( Chicago's Wrigley Field was next-oldest, having been built in 1914 ).

In 1958, the Pirates sold Forbes to the University of Pittsburgh for $ 2 million ($ million today ).