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 '".

This National League pennant was notable because it was the only NL East title between 1970 and 1980 that wasn't won by either the Philadelphia Phillies or the Pittsburgh Pirates.

During the period of two-division play ( 1969 to 1993 ), the two National League East division rivals won the two highest numbers of division championships, reigning exclusively as NL East champions in the 1970s and again in the early 1990s, the Pirates 9, the Phillies 6 ; together, the two teams ' 15 championships accounted for more than half of the 25 NL East championships during that span.

Overall the Pirates have won five World Series and lost two.

The five that the Pirates won were all seven-game Series.

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.

During the 1970 campaign, Clemente compiled an average of. 352 ; the Pirates won the National League East but were subsequently eliminated by the Cincinnati Reds.

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

The Padres won three of four in the Steel City and during the series the Pirates traded former Padre underachiever Xavier Nady to the Yankees for prospects.

* October 13 – The Pittsburgh Pirates won the 1960 World Series of baseball in Game 7, on a home run hit by Bill Mazeroski for a 10 – 9 victory over the New York Yankees.

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.

After an injury-plagued 1971 season in which the team finished fifth, the Reds came back and won another pennant under Anderson in 1972, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the NLCS, but losing to the Oakland Athletics in the World Series.

Under new manager John McNamara, the Reds won the division title again in, but lost three straight to the Pittsburgh Pirates in the League Championship Series.

* The Junior High Lady Pirates won the Juniata Valley League basketball championship in 2006.

The Pirates won back to back Class 3A baseball championships in 1988 and 1989, and won another in 2002.

* World Series – Pittsburgh Pirates won 4 games to 3 over the Baltimore Orioles.

* World Series – Pittsburgh Pirates won 4 games to 3 over the Baltimore Orioles.

The Pirates have captured numerous Canadian championships and have won 5 straight overall provincial ( OFSAA ) Ontario championships in track & field and cross country running in an association of over 1000 schools since 2004.

In 1946, Caniff won the first Cartoonist of the Year Award from the National Cartoonists Society for his work on Terry and the Pirates.

On July 21, 2012, D ' Onofrio and members of his family won first place in the ' mixed ' category for families at the Coney Island Sand Sculpting Contest with their ' Pirates Fantasy ' entry.

They won their first game against the Pittsburgh Pirates ( now Steelers ) 6-0, but lost the last two to the Detroit Lions ( 40-7 ) and the Green Bay Packers ( 21-14 ).

The NHL playoffs that year were a two-game total goals format and Montreal won the opening series over the Pittsbugh Pirates 6-4, then upset the favored Ottawa Senators 2-1.

Gwynn is an eight-time National League batting champion, leading the league in 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997, which ties him with the Pittsburgh Pirates ' Honus Wagner for the league record — the all-time Major League batting titles leader is Ty Cobb, who won 12 American League batting titles.

" On October 1, 1903 the first modern World Series between the American League champion Boston Pilgrims ( later known as the Red Sox ) and the National League champion Pittsburgh Pirates was played on this site.

The Reds swept the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1970 National League Championship Series, but lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series.

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.

The Reds swept the Pirates in three games to win the 1975 National League Championship Series, and defeated the Boston Red Sox in a memorable seven game World Series.

He bounced back to hit 31 home runs and 109 RBIs in 1977, but the Reds would only reach the post-season once more during Bench's career, when the 1979 Reds were swept in three games by the Pirates in the 1979 National League Championship Series.

The rivalry between the Phillies and the Pittsburgh Pirates was considered by some to be one of the best rivalries in the National League.

The rivalry started when the Pittsburgh Pirates entered National League play in their fifth season of 1887, four years after the Phillies.

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

After the Pirates moved to the National League Central in 1994, the teams face each other only in two series each year and the rivalry has diminished.

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.

In 1971, the Pirates repeated as Eastern Division winners, and reached the 1971 World Series, taking 3 out of 4 from the San Francisco Giants in the 1971 National League Championship Series, with Clemente's throwing prowess, timely hitting and heads-up base-running leading the way in the decisive victory.

* October 1 – The first modern World Series, pitting the National League's Pittsburgh Pirates against Boston of the American League, begins at Pittsburgh's Exposition Park.

The film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest was criticised by the National Garifuna Council for portraying the Carib people as cannibals.

1915. Stengel was an outfielder on several teams in the National League beginning on September 17, 1912: the Brooklyn Dodgers from-17 ; the Pittsburgh Pirates in and ; the Philadelphia Phillies in and part of ; the New York Giants from 1921 to ; and the Boston Braves in and.

He played thirteen seasons in the American and National League with the Detroit Tigers ( 1917 – 1923 ), Boston Red Sox ( 1923 – 1929 ), Washington Senators ( 1929 ), and Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1929 – 1930 ).

This type of packaging is popular today and can be seen being used by McFarlane Toys for their Movie Maniacs line of action figures beginning with Series V. Other companies that utilize this type of packaging are NECA / Reel Toys ( National Entertainment Collectibles Association ) with their Cult Classics and Pirates of the Caribbean line of figures, and Toy Biz with its Marvel Legends action figures, which included a comic book placed between the two PVC segments.

* National League championship – Pittsburgh Pirates

* National League championship – Pittsburgh Pirates

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.