Radio broadcasts had not begun and most devotees of baseball attended the games near home, in the town park or a pasture, with perhaps two or three trips to the city each season to see the Cubs or the Pirates or the Indians or the Red Sox.

Bench had another strong year in 1972, again winning the Most Valuable Player Award and leading the National League in home runs ( 40 ) and RBI ( 125 ), to help propel the Reds to another National League West Division title, and a five-game victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1972 National League Championship Series.

* 1944 – Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.

The Phillies and the Pirates had remained together after the National League split into two divisions in 1969.

The Pirates have had many ups and downs during their long history, most famously winning the 1960 World Series on a game winning homerun by Bill Mazeroski, the only time that Game 7 of the World Series has ever ended with a home run.

Thus, the paradox of Frederic's birthday in The Pirates of Penzance establishes the surprising fact that a twenty-one-year-old would have had only five birthdays, if he was born on a leap day.

The day after their doubleheader loss, the Pirates traveled to New York's Polo Grounds, where Roberto, having just achieved some measure of vindication against the team that let him get away, now had a chance to compete against his two great baseball heroes, both his boyhood idol Monte Irvin and his recently acquired friend and mentor ( not to mention teammate, with the 1954-55 Caribbean Champion Santurce Crabbers ), Willie Mays, both of whom now patrolled the outfield of the defending World Champion New York Giants, with whom the Pirates now began a four-game series, hoping to pick up their first win of 1955.

This marked the second occasion that Clemente had won a World Series with the Pirates.

At the time of his death, Clemente had established several records with the Pirates, including most triples in a game ( three ) and hits in two consecutive games ( ten ).

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.

Pirates had a system of hierarchy on board their ships determining how captured money was distributed.

Before the Penguins, Pittsburgh had been the home of the NHL's Pirates from 1925 to 1932 and of the Hornets AHL franchise from the 1930s to 1967.

Both the Pirates and Steelers had worn black and gold for decades, and both were fresh off world championship seasons at that time.

On the United States ' suppression in the First Barbary War of the Muslim Barbary Pirates along the southern Mediterranean coast, who kidnapped Christians for ransom and slavery, Pope Pius VII declared that the United States “ had done more for the cause of Christianity than the most powerful nations of Christendom have done for ages .”

They were joined by the Hamilton Redbirds in 1987 and the Welland Pirates in 1989, but all three clubs had moved back to the United States by 2000.

* 1960 ( Yankees – Pirates )-Game 7 ( with Bill Mazeroski's series-clinching walk-off home run ) was found intact on kinescope in December 2009 in the wine cellar of Pirates ' part-owner Bing Crosby, who had the game recorded at his own expense.

After Pirates Pryce has appeared in several large-scale productions, such as De-Lovely ( Pryce's second musical film ), a chronicle of the life of songwriter Cole Porter, for which Kevin Kline and Pryce covered a Porter song called " Blow, Gabriel, Blow ", The Brothers Grimm, Pryce's third film with Terry Gilliam, starred Matt Damon and Heath Ledger, and The New World, in which he had a cameo role as King James I.

The Portageville Pirates had a secret trade with India during 1970's.

Some say the sailor had fond memories of trips to North Africa, some have said he had a friend that had been captured by the Barbary Pirates and was imprisoned in old Mogador and others have speculated that popular literature of that era was the Arabian Nights and the mysterious markets on the North African coast.

Bruckheimer had finished shooting Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, but was unhappy with the music composed for the film by Alan Silvestri and wanted a replacement score.

Although Terry and the Pirates had made Caniff famous, the strip was owned by the syndicate, which was not uncommon at the time.

First looks at Sid Meier's Pirates, Akella's PT Boats, and Ubisoft's Silent Hunter III reveal that 2005 will be a very good year for subsim players.

In the field, he displayed good range and a very strong arm in 2004, even better than the Pirates expected from a former shortstop.

In 2012 the Pittsburgh Pirates began using the iconic " Zoltan " hand gesture from " Dude, Where's My Car " as a good luck symbol to turn around a 19-season losing streak.

Now the company's leading soprano, Jay played Mabel in Pirates ( 1900 ), again earning good notices, and the title role in the first London revival of Patience ( 1901 ).

It was also considered a good move for Pittsburgh, with sportswriters picking the Pirates to finish first the National League in 1928.

His baseball skills were good enough for him to be scouted by both the New York Giants and the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The Pirates charities include their own Holiday Treasure Chest Fund, which provides food, toys and good cheer to families in need.

A good deal of Pirates flavor text contains references to historical events or people, other fictional characters or events, or are simply references to the game's writers and designers.

Pirates general manager Dave Littlefield commented on the acquisition by saying " Lawton, we think, is a good fit.

Duke had a number of good starts in the first half of the season, but many of them were undone by the Pirates ' weak bullpen and lack of run support for Duke.

Highly touted by the Pittsburgh Pirates, Yochim was a screwball specialist and had a good curve as well, but a sore arm limited him to pitch in only 28. 1 innings, ending his major league career with a 1-2 record and a 7. 62 ERA in 12 games ( three as a starter ).

The Pirates jumped off to an 11-3 start by May 1 last year, when the Redbirds as well as the Dodgers held them even over the season.

On June 1, Clyde Sukeforth, a coach for the Pittsburgh Pirates, arrived in Richmond, where the Royals were about to start a 5-game series.

In Pittsburgh, the 6th Street Bridge was renamed in his memory, and the Pirates retired his number 21 at the start of the 1973 season.

For example, during a particularly long losing streak in the 1980s, Skip declared at the start of a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, " And, like lambs to the slaughter, the Braves take the field ".

If there ever were another Pirates of the Caribbean film, I would start fresh and focus on the further adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow.

The Houston Astros retired his jersey on August 26, 2007, prior to the start of a game versus the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The Pirates expected Castillo to be 100 % for the start of spring training in February 2006, though he was not able to play winter ball in his native Venezuela.

But on March 23, the Pirates announced that Jose Bautista would start the season as the team's starting third baseman, meaning Castillo would start the season as a utility bench player.

He played in the 1962 World Series against the New York Yankees ( one start, a no decision ) and the 1971 National League Championship Series against the Pittsburgh Pirates ( losing his only start ).

One of these screenplays, an adaptation of the story of Terry and the Pirates, had already been accepted for filming, and it was scheduled for the start of production in Hong Kong later in 2012, with Culp being the film director.

His final start of 2004 came on July 9, in which he pitched only 1⅓ innings, giving up 7 hits and 7 earned runs in an 11 – 0 loss against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Now part of a team he was never intended to be part of, Thompson got off to a slow start with the Pirates, batting. 171 with seven home runs and seventeen RBIs in the first half of the strike shortened season.

After lasting only of an inning and giving up four runs in his second start in Game 5, Avery kept the Pirates at bay in the crucial middle innings of Game 7 in relief of John Smoltz.

Despite a strong start from Ellis during the playoff chase in the final week of the season, the Pirates lost the division to the New York Mets.

He made his first start on May 17 against the Pittsburgh Pirates, but only lasted 4 and innings while allowing seven earned runs to take the loss.

In the end, identical to Avery's last start, a combination of Avery and Alejandro Pena shut out the Pirates for all nine innings.

Twenty-game winner John Smiley made the start, fared poorly, was yanked after two-thirds of an inning and lost to John Smoltz, who shut out the Pirates.

The project is slated to start after the Pirates ’ 2012 spring training season and will continue around the Marauders ’ 2012 schedule.

Lackey became only the second rookie in World Series history to start and win Game 7, the other being Babe Adams of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Three successive wins at the start of the 2001-02 campaign gave the Pirates hope for promotion back to Division Two, but injuries soon took their toll on the side's form and Francis resigned just before Christmas.

saw Mackowiak's second Opening Day start for the Pirates organization, and continuing his jack-of-all-trades status at the club, appeared at five different positions in his first 10 games ( RF, CF, LF, 2B & 3B ).

Pirates manager Jim Tracy admitted his surprise and praised him, " If you handed out ballots at the start of the season listing potential candidates to win the National League batting championship, I don't know that his name would have been on it.