" One of the early concept arts for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End showed a pirate similar to Captain Hook as one of the Pirate Lords of the Fourth Brethren Court.

The third and final one showed Satchel and Bucky as trading cards, with Satchel being " Mario Lepooch " ( a parody of Pittsburgh Penguins owner and star Mario Lemieux ) and Bucky being " Buck Tekulve " ( after former Pirates reliever Kent Tekulve ).

During her brief reign as Pirate King, Elizabeth proved to be very charismatic and encouraged the Pirates to face off against Cutler Beckett's fleet which showed that she had a talent for leadership.

The others generally showed their contempt of Slater during their games, as when they played Pirates, Slater was always the one who walked the plank.

In with the Pirates, Giles emerged as a power-hitting outfielder who also hit for average and showed plate discipline.

On that day, 6, 644 fans showed up to watch the Pirates defeat the Boston Red Sox 7-5.

The ' 38 club saw Dizzy Dean lead the team's pitching staff and provided a historic moment when they won a crucial late-season game at Wrigley Field over the Pittsburgh Pirates with a walk-off home run by Gabby Hartnett, which became known in baseball lore as " The Homer in the Gloamin '".

Most notably, they traded with the Pittsburgh Pirates for outfielder Kenny Lofton and third baseman Aramis Ramirez, and rode dominant pitching, led by Kerry Wood and Mark Prior, as the Cubs led the division down the stretch.

Greenberg was sold to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1947, became the very first baseball player to earn over $ 80, 000 / year in salary ( he was paid $ 100, 000, ($ today ) plus $ 25, 000 that his contract with Detroit called for in the event they sold or traded him ).

The following season, they repeated as American League champions but ultimately lost the 1925 World Series to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Falk's first stage appearance was at the age of 12 in The Pirates of Penzance at Camp High Point in upstate New York, where one of his camp counselors was Ross Martin ( they would later act together in The Great Race and the Columbo episode " Suitable For Framing ").

The Pirates experienced several difficult seasons through the 1950s, although they did manage their first winning season since 1948 in 1959.

Clemente returned in plenty of time to help the Pirates clinch the National League pennant, which they did on September 25, finishing the season at 95-59.

From there, they went on to defeat the power-laden New York Yankees in a seven-game Series, during which Clemente batted. 310, hitting safely at least once in every game ( exactly one half of a streak which would be completed much more resoundingly eleven years later in The Great One's signature Series, i. e. the Pirates ' 1971, come-from-behind, seven-game victory over the Baltimore Orioles ).

After winning their division, they were easily defeated in the League Championship Series by the Pittsburgh Pirates and Roberto Clemente, who then went on to beat the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series.

Pirates tended to kill few people aboard the ships they captured ; usually they would kill no one if the ship surrendered because, if it became known that pirates took no prisoners, their victims would fight to the last and make victory both very difficult and costly in lives.

There are a number of Pirates in the game, who immediately attempt to destroy any non-Pirate ship they spot, with the exception of the player once they have achieved a high combat rating.

Pirates in whaleboats once robbed prominent landowner George Hewlett and two friends while they were duck hunting, ripping the silver buttons from their coats.

The Pirates, when they established themselves in 1962-64 and again from 1976 onwards as a separate, power trio entity from Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, were pioneers of the technique of playing guitar solos with a thick chordal rhythm-guitar-like style, which was later popularised by Dr. Feelgood in the 1970s.

Haddix and the Pirates had lost the game 1 – 0 ; despite their 12 hits in the game, they could not bring a run home.

It was home to the Seton Hall University Pirates men's basketball team before they moved to Continental Airlines Arena and then the Prudential Center.

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.

The Cardinals held a special day in Hornsby's honor on September 30 before a home game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, and they presented Hornsby with multiple awards before the game, including a baseball autographed by President of the United States Warren G. Harding.

However, during the team's existence, they would be the only team in the city with the colors, as the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team, like all other baseball teams at the time, had a more patriotic red, white, and blue color scheme and wouldn't adopt black & gold until 1948.

When the Philadelphia Flyers joined the NHL in 1967, they adopted the orange and black colors first worn by the Pirates and Quakers.

The Pirates won the pennant again in 1927 with Traynor hitting. 342 with five home runs and 106 runs batted in, but they would lose to the New York Yankees in the 1927 World Series.

Rob Kidd wrote an ongoing book series entitled Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow, following a teenage Sparrow and his crew on the Barnacle as they battle sirens, mermaids and adult pirates while looking for various treasures.

Pirates were engaged by the Argives to fetch the image back, but the enterprise did not succeed, for the ship when laden with the image could not be made to move.

" Favreau insisted on having Downey as he repeatedly claimed that Downey would be to Iron Man what Johnny Depp is to the Pirates of the Caribbean series, a lead actor that could both elevate the quality of the film and increase the public's interest in it.

* In Sid Meier's Pirates, if you entered in the wrong information, you could still play the game, but at a level that would be very hard to make it far in the game.

The Pirates were defeated in Game 1, 4-0 and their 4-2 win in Game 2 could not overcome New York's lead in goals.

During spring training the following year, manager Jim Frey suggested that Quisenberry learn the submarine style delivery from Pittsburgh Pirates reliever Kent Tekulve to confuse hitters, because he could not overpower them with a fastball.

In a press interview in Brisbane, Anthony Warlow said that he had deliberately based his Pirate King on Johnny Depp's character from " Pirates of the Caribbean " so that people who may not know the opera but are aware of the " Pirates of the Caribbean " trilogy of movies could enjoy the opera more.

Over his shoulder could be seen Roberto Clemente of the opposing Pittsburgh Pirates.

Howard hit. 462 in the Series, but did not play in Game 7 after being hit on the hand by a pitch in the second inning of Game 6, and could only watch as the Pirates won the Series, 10-9, on Bill Mazeroski's home run leading off the bottom of the ninth.

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.

However, its location has been altered ; author John McCollister wrote, " Had architects placed home plate in its precise spot about half of the Pirates fans could not view it.

As part of the deal, the university leased Forbes back to the Pirates until a replacement could be built.

The Pirates lifted their local blackout policy so that local fans could see the inaugural game.

Some suggest that other music from Thespis could have been used in Pirates.

Bluecher and Barrel ask Mega Man if he could retrieve the keys before the Pirates who heard their conversation with Geetz.

Pirates did not lightly submit to flogging, as they resented the frequent use of this punishment in the naval and merchant services from which most of them came, and thus only a leader who commanded the obedience of his crew could successfully order such penalties.

* 2004-Gold coins were purchasable with the styrene " coins " from the treasure cards in this set, which could be used in the Pirates Gold auction at GenCon 2004.

He made two starts to close out his season and won them both but the Mets could not catch the Pittsburgh Pirates.

This was done allegedly because Vince McMahon, who reportedly was not aware of the Pirates of the Caribbean films and Johnny Depp's pirate character, believed the character should have thought he was a real pirate, acting more like the Carl Ouellet pirate character from the 1990s, and felt it could not work as a crowd favorite, despite the positive crowd reactions Burchill received.

Despite the loss, Pittsburgh owner Barney Dreyfuss could feel his vision of a World Series had been a success, since the public had come out in large numbers to watch the games with over 100, 000 paying spectators, the games had been hard fought with the players on both teams giving it their all, and the Pirates had proven to be a mighty foe with stars such as Tommy Leach proving their worth on the field.

After the season was over, the Pirates sent him to play in the Arizona Fall League so he could work on his plate discipline.

Before he could reach incentives that would have approximately doubled his salary, the Pirates released Donnelly in July 2010 denying that the incentives were the reason for the release.

The Pirates lost, 30 – 0, falling to 6 – 6 – 0, and could only hope that 6 – 5 – 0 Boston would do the same in their last game ; instead, the Redskins won at New York, 14 – 0 before 18, 000.