Cleveland met the Yankees in the 1946 and 1947 championships and faced the 49ers for the title in 1949, winning all of those games.

In 2004, the Red Sox once again met the Yankees in the American League Championship Series.

In 1956 he had 32 home runs and 87 RBI as Brooklyn won the pennant again, and once more met the Yankees in the World Series.

In, a group of Yankees met at the famous Copacabana nightclub to celebrate Martin's 29th birthday ; the party ultimately erupted into a much publicized brawl when Martin, Hank Bauer, Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra challenged a few drunks who were hurling racial slurs at performer Sammy Davis, Jr. A month later, general manager George Weiss — believing Martin's nightlife was a bad influence on teammates Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle — exiled him to Kansas City.

Martin won the American League West Division title in the split season of, swept the Kansas City Royals in the special division series ( due to a players ' strike-action ), and then met the Yankees in the 1981 ALCS where his A's were swept by the Yankees.

As the Yankees again met the Braves in the 1958 Series, his impact did not become notable until Game 5, when he caught a sinking fly ball in the sixth inning and made a throw to catch Bill Bruton off first base for a double play, preserving a 1-0 lead.

During a hiatus in both Night Ranger and Styx, Shaw and Blades met with Ted Nugent to record a new Damn Yankees album in 1999.

When the Angels met the New York Yankees in a game in August, a fan threw a knife at Joyner.

The Red Sox and Yankees had met 45 times in the previous two years, with Boston holding a 23 – 22 lead.

In addition, the teams have twice met in the last regular-season series of a season to decide the league title, in ( when the Red Sox won ) and ( when the Yankees won ).

The Yankees met the New York Giants for the third straight year in the World Series.

The Braves would make, to date, one World Series appearance after moving into Turner Field, and that took place in, when they again met the Yankees and lost ( as noted above, the Yankees dynasty of the 1990s was part of the Braves heated rivalry with the Mets ).

The Yankees and Dodgers met again in the 1978 and 1981 World Series.

Rodriguez met with Yankees officials in Miami, and afterward Rodriguez instructed Boras to finalize a record-breaking 10-year, $ 275 million contract.

The Yankees met the powerful Cleveland Browns in the championship game.

Bill Mazeroski, the World Series hero of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Casey Stengel, the former manager of the Yankees.

He was known as a big fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Yankees.

* 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.

* October 8 – Murderer's Row: The New York Yankees complete a four-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the World Series.

Many scouts were looking at him play, including Tom Greenwade of the New York Yankees ( who discovered Mickey Mantle ), and Danny Murtaugh of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Grimes played for the Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1916 -), the Brooklyn Dodgers (-), the New York Giants (), the Pirates again (-), the Boston Braves (), the St. Louis Cardinals ( 1930 -), the Chicago Cubs (-), the Cardinals again ( 1933 -), the Pirates ( 1934 ), and the New York Yankees ( 1934 ).

* 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

* John Vander Wal, retired pro baseball player ( Montreal, Colorado, San Diego, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, N. Y. Yankees, Cincinnati, Milwaukee ), current pro scout for San Diego Padres organization ; also holds the MLB record for pinch hits in a season ( 28 )

As a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, he pitched in the 1960 World Series against the New York Yankees.

* Hank Borowy ( 1916 – 2004 ), Major League Baseball All-Star pitcher who played for the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates and Detroit Tigers.

* Hank Borowy ( 1916 – 2004 ), Major League Baseball All-Star pitcher who played for the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates and Detroit Tigers.

Other attractions responsible for recent popularity and favorable attention to the Scranton area include the Snö Mountain ski resort ( formerly Montage Mountain ), the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins, AHL affiliate of the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre Yankees ( formerly the Red Barons ), AAA affiliate of the New York Yankees, and their PNC Field, The Houdini Museum and the Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain concert venue.

The Clippers began play in as an affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates, changing its affiliation to the New York Yankees in, beginning a 28-year relationship that ended in.

However, Moran's son Tom briefly served as the team's interim coach that year after Charley took a leave of absence to officiate in the 1927 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Pittsburgh Pirates.

* World Series – Pittsburgh Pirates win 4 games to 3 over the New York Yankees.

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 ).

In the 1960 World Series, the Yankees scored a record 55 runs against the Pittsburgh Pirates — and still lost the Series.

On a 2 – 2 count, Carter hit a three-run walk-off home run off Phillies pitcher Mitch Williams ( against whom he was 0 – 4 career ) to win the World Series, only the second time a Series has ended with a home run ( the other being in 1960, when Bill Mazeroski did it for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the New York Yankees ), and the only time the home run has been hit by a player whose team was trailing in the bottom of the 9th inning in a potential championship clinching game.

* 5 – 8 October — New York Yankees ( AL ) defeats Pittsburgh Pirates ( NL ) to win the 1927 World Series by 4 games to 0

Buhner was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the second round of the 1984 Major League Baseball Draft and was traded shortly thereafter to the New York Yankees.

However, in 2002, he hit his 300th career home run on April 3rd, against Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Kip Wells, and a game winning three-run home run in the 8th inning of a game on June 16th that gave the Mets a 3-2 win over the Yankees.

In the 1960 World Series, Mazeroski won the title for Pittsburgh in Game 7 with a game-winning home run off New York Yankees pitcher Ralph Terry in the bottom of the ninth inning.

Hinske has spent time at the major league level with the Toronto Blue Jays, Boston Red Sox, Tampa Bay Rays, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees, and Atlanta Braves playing third base, first base, left field, and right field.

* Al Reyes, pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers, Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, and the Tampa Bay Rays

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 ).

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.

* 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.

Over the course of these two seasons, Anderson's Reds compiled an astounding 14 – 3 record in postseason play against the Pirates, Phillies, Red Sox and Yankees, winning their last eight in a row in the postseason after triumphing against the Red Sox in Game 7 of the 1975 World Series, and then winning seven straight games in the 1976 postseason.

The Best Game Ever: Pirates vs. Yankees, October 13, 1960 ( New York: Carroll & Graf ).

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.