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.

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 1925, Traynor posted a. 320 average with six home runs, 106 runs batted in and led the league in fielding percentage as the Pirates won the National League pennant by eight and a half games over the New York Giants.

He almost won another pennant as a manager in 1938, as the Pirates led the National League for most of the season before faltering to the Chicago Cubs in the famous " Homer in the Gloamin '" game at Wrigley Field.

pennant by 19 games and sweeping the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1927 World Series.

The Pirates won the 1927 NL pennant ; Lloyd then batted. 400 in his first and only World Series, but the New York Yankees won in four games.

The Pirates won the National League pennant in 1901 and 1902.

In 1932, Hartnett guided the Cubs ' pitching staff to the lowest team earned run average in the league, as the Cubs clinched the National League pennant by 4 games over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

With the acquisition of speed in a trade with the Pittsburgh Pirates, including Dots Miller, Art Butler, Cozy Dolan and Chief Wilson, the Cardinals contended for the NL pennant in 1914.

Under the management of Fred Clarke the Pirates won the National League pennant in 1901, 1902, and 1903.

The Giants were in a tight pennant race with the Dodgers ( as well as the Pirates, Reds, and Braves ) and the race was decided with only two games to play.

He broke into the majors in 1908 with the Pirates and helped them win the pennant and World Series the following year.

In 1972, he continued to be a valuable role player, hitting for a career-high. 318 batting average in 117 games, helping the Pirates win the Eastern Division pennant, before they lost to the Cincinnati Reds in the 1972 National League Championship Series.

In July 1973, the Pirates sold Davalillo to the Oakland Athletics who were in the midst of a pennant race with the Kansas City Royals.

By late season, with the Pirates in a terrific pennant race with the Dodgers and Giants, some fans would parade a giant replica of the Green Weenie through the grandstand as a rally symbol.

In 1959, his power hitting added to the Chicago White Sox's lineup, helping them clinch the American League ( AL ) pennant, having arrived late in the season from a trade with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

This " hybrid vigor " effect soon turned the perennial cellar-dwelling Pirates into a three-peat pennant winner, and a participant in the first modern World Series.

He won 25 games in 1903 to help the Pirates win their third consecutive National League pennant, but lost both his starts in the World Series as the heavily favored Pirates were upset by Boston.

Seeking more pitching in their pennant race, the Pirates purchased Ellis from the Mets on September 21, 1979 for an undisclosed sum of money ; the price was later revealed to be " something in excess of the waiver price of $ 20, 000 ".

With the Pirates winning their first pennant since, he also led the league in games again, tying his own team record of 68 ; the mark would be broken when teammate Pete Mikkelsen appeared in 71 games in.

Groat responded with his best year as team captain, becoming the first Pirate to be named MVP since Paul Waner in their last pennant year of 1927, and also the first right-handed Pirates hitter to win the batting title since Honus Wagner in 1911.

By 1963, Jim Pagliaroni had taken over as the Pirates ' starting catcher and in late 1964, Burgess was acquired by the Chicago White Sox, who were in the heat of the pennant race.