After defeating the young Oakland A's in the ALCS, the Orioles would lose a heartbreaking seven-game World Series to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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.

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 ").

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.

In the nightcap came his first extra-base hit, a 6th-inning double, as well as another single, which, in conjunction with aggressive base-running, triggered a 2-run, 8th-inning rally, narrowing the Dodgers ' lead to one ; one inning later, the Pirates ' comeback would fall one run short, with the go-ahead run on base, and Clemente on deck.

" Freelance sportswriter Arnold Hano and Clemente biographer Kal Wagenheim each placed it at 450 feet, while Pirates ' manager Danny Murtaugh simply said: " I'd like to see Clemente ’ s hit on a clear day with no wind and see how far it really would go.

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 ).

Shawn Estes and Mark Gardner would have sub-par years, but notably Jason Schmidt ( 7 – 1, 3. 39 ) was picked up in a mid-season acquisition from the Pittsburgh Pirates.

In The Music of Arthur Sullivan ( 1959 ), Hughes quotes four extracts from Pirates, saying that if hearing each out of context one might attribute it to Schubert, Mendelssohn, Gounod or Bizet respectively, " yet on learning the truth one would kick oneself for not having recognised Sullivan's touch in all four.

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.

He made his major league debut on September 10, 1916, for the Pittsburgh Pirates, and in, when the spitball was banned, he was named as one of the 17 established pitchers who would be allowed to continue to throw the pitch.

He would play for the New York Giants, Boston Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates, and St. Louis Cardinals.

Stealey decided that it would improve the company's branding, believing that it would make those who purchased the flight simulators more likely to play Pirates !.

: After a couple of years, the Tribunes editor, Captain Joseph Patterson, whose influence would later have profound effects on such strips as Terry and the Pirates and Little Orphan Annie, decided the strip should have something to appeal to women, as well, and suggested King add a baby.

" 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 assigned to, what would later be called, the NHL's American Division, with the Boston Bruins and the New York Americans.

Ten former Yellow Jacket players would play for the Pirates.

It would also turn out to be the last playoff game that the Pirates would play.

The Pirates 1929-30 season was their fifth season in the NHL, and what would eventually be their last.

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.

" 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.

Pirates was an immediate hit in New York, and later London, becoming one of the most popular Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

* Shreveport later hosted the Steamers of the AFA and the Pirates of the CFL.

Dissatisfied with that status, Depp turned to film for more challenging roles ; he played the title character of Edward Scissorhands ( 1990 ) and later found box office success in films such as Sleepy Hollow ( 1999 ), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ( 2005 ), Rango ( 2011 ) and the Pirates of the Caribbean film series ( 2003 – present ).

* Bill Virdon, former outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, later went on to be manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees, Houston Astros and Montreal Expos

Meier later explained that the inclusion of his name was because of the dramatic departure in the design of Pirates!

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.

On April 16, he started his first game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, only to suffer a strained left calf muscle 9 days later resulting in another trip to the DL.

These episodes were later compiled into a feature film entitled Davy Crockett and the River Pirates, released in 1956.

A few of the players from this team went on to play for the original Pittsburgh Pirates football team in 1933 ; the team later became the Steelers.

The Pirates booster club was formed during the team's first season in order to support the team, and remained active long after the team became defunct, spearheading various later attempts to get another professional football team in the Shreveport area.

He returned 10 days later, but the injury lingered, and he was removed from a game against the Pirates on May 26 to be examined by Robert Hyland, the Cardinals ' physician.

Two nights later, on November 28, 1925, the Pirates stunned the Montreal Canadiens, defeating them 1-0.

He later called on his brother, a Pittsburgh Police officer, who provided him with old and surplus emblems, seals and patches for the Pirates to wear, all of them in the official city colors of " black and gold ".

He played primarily for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and later for the Boston Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Cleveland Indians.

Komar later became an actor, appearing in Roman Polanski's 1986 film Pirates.

And so, looking back to these performers, later Irish-oriented rock groups like The Pogues interpreted traditional shanties and sea songs like “ South Australia ” and “ The Greenland Whale Fisheries .” A notable instance where many non-maritime music performers tackled the traditional maritime repertoire stems from the actor Johnny Depp ’ s reported interest in shanties that developed while filming Pirates of the Caribbean.

But the African continent and other areas of the soccer world took notice of Orlando Pirates Football Club when they won the African Champions Cup ( now known as the Champions League ) in 1995 and the African Super Cup a year later.

The Pirates have a 9-6 record this year and the Redbirds are 7-9.

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.

This letter reserved 10 % of the loot for the Crown, and Henry Gilbert's The Book of Pirates suggests that the King may have fronted some of the money for the voyage himself.

Many successful Hollywood films have been based on British people, stories or events, including Titanic, The Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean and the ' English Cycle ' of Disney animated films.

Four of the top seven highest-grossing films worldwide of all time have some British historical, cultural or creative dimensions: Titanic, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

To celebrate the successful 1982 Milwaukee Brewers team, the franchise decided to have the 2007 season be named as the " 25th Anniversary of ' 82 ", with more fan giveaways than any other Major League Baseball team except the Pittsburgh Pirates, and more discounts and deals than any other time in Brewers ' history.

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.

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

After a run of regular-season success in the early 1990s ( making the NLCS three straight years ), the Pirates have struggled in recent decades, with 20 consecutive losing seasons to date, the longest in North American professional sports history.

The Pirates of Penzance was the only Gilbert and Sullivan opera to have its official premiere in the United States.

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.

The Wild Things in particular have been able to market themselves as a successful alternative to the Pittsburgh Pirates due to the latter franchise's long stretch of losing seasons, which currently dates to the Frontier League's founding in 1993.

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 .”

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.

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.

While more ruthless than Crow's crew, the Green Pirates have not generally proven to be much smarter or more competent.

Eighteen teams have all hosted an all-star game at least twice since the Mets last did: Atlanta Braves ( 1972 and 2000 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1983 and 2003 ), Cincinnati Reds ( 1970 and 1988 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1981 and 1997 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1971 and 2005 ), Houston Astros ( 1968, 1986, and 2004 ), Kansas City Royals ( 1973 and 2012 ), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ( 1967, 1989, and 2010 ), Milwaukee Brewers ( 1975 and 2002 ), Minnesota Twins ( 1965, 1985, and 2014 ), New York Yankees ( 1977 and 2008 ), Philadelphia Phillies ( 1976 and 1996 ), Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1974, 1994, and 2006 ), San Diego Padres ( 1978 and 1992 ), San Francisco Giants ( 1984 and 2007 ), Seattle Mariners ( 1979 and 2001 ), and St. Louis Cardinals ( 1966 and 2009 ), and Washington Senators / Texas Rangers ( 1969 and 1995 ).

The Pittsburgh Pirates have left their mark in the NHL record books and NHL history with many firsts and other notable achievements.