A few years ago the average income was about 1 million dollars but, it has gone up.
The Pirates home uniform is white with black sleeves and gold lettering. Their away jersey is grey with black sleeves and gold lettering. Click on the 'Pirates Uniform' link on this page to see a diagram of what their uniforms look like.
For all three of Pittsburgh's teams, Black and Gold are the base colors. The Steelers also have accents of white, gray, blue, and red. The Pirates have use gray for allternate color uniforms and the Penguins use a white and blue throwback jersey from time to time.
Three Rivers Stadium was demolished on February 11, 2001.
In 1903 the Pirates played in what amounted to be the first World Series of Baseball. The best of nine game series lasted 8 games leaving the Boston Pilgrims the winner, but giving Pittsburgh its first taste of playing in the championship games. In Pittsburgh the games were played on the North Side in Exposition Park (home of the Pirates from 1881 to 1909)
because of wiliam pitts coat of arms a native of Pittsburghit was named after him
As of the 2008 season, that would be Wilbur Cooper with 202 wins between 1912-1924 for the Pirates. Second is a tie between Babe Adams (1907-1926) and Sam Leever (1898-1910) with 194. Third is Bob Friend (1951-1965) with 191.
The Pirates got their name from their early practice of picking up players from defunct teams in the 1900's and 1910's, most famous being Honus Wagner from Louisville. Hence, they "pirated" players.
Roberto Clemente had 240 career home runs.
Prior to 2014, The Orioles were last in the playoffs in 1997. They lost to the Cleveland Indians in the ALCS, 4 games to 2, after defeating Seattle in the ALDS 3 games to 1.
This answer is wrong. The Baltimore Orioles were in the playoffs in 2012, when they beat the Texas Rangers in the Wild Card game, and then lost to the Yankees in the ALDS.
The Roberto Clemente Award is given annually to a Major League Baseball player selected for his character and charitable contributions to his community. It is named for Hall of Fame outfielder Roberto Clemente, who was killed in a plane crash in 1972 while delivering supplies to victims of the Nicaragua earthquake. It was originally named the "Commissioner's Award" but was renamed after Clemente's untimely death.
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Roberto Clemente married Vera Zabala on November 14, 1964.
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It's called the "Zoltan," and it's spreading through Pittsburgh like wildfire.
The Pirates watched Dude, Where's My Car? during a road trip to Atlanta in late April and have since adopted the cult leader Zoltan's hand sign as their official big-play signal. (edit) The sign is made with the left hand on top, right on the bottom, touching extended thumbs to resemble a Z. That shows a Z to other people, if you put the right hand on top you are backwards and showng it to yourself. Since this original answer was posted there has been a barrage of Z (zoltan) merchandise, homemade signs, and the like in the stands. (2012)
HE IS THE FIRST HISPANIC PERSON TO EVER MAKE TO THE HALL OF FAME HE GOT IN ON FIRST BALLOT HE GOT EXACTLY3000 HITS HE WAS A HERO BY HELPING PEOPLE WHO WERE IN AN EARTHQUAKE BUT BAD people tried to make money by selling the stuff ,so they packed it up in one trip and it was too heavy so the plane crashed and Roberto died at age 38.
Im pretty sure it's the instrumental portion of the them to Soul Train
2011. The Pirates won the series 2-1