April 6, 1951 P Bert Blyleven is born in Zeist, Netherlands. His family will move first to Canada, then to the United States while he is still a youngster. Throwing one of the best curveballs in history, he will pitch for 22 seasons, winning 287 games, throwing 60 shutouts and striking out 3701 opponents. A member of World Champion teams in Pittsburgh in 1979 and Minnesota in 1987, he will gain election to the Hall of Fame in 2011, on his 14th try. April 6, 1962 On the heel of his career season in 1961, Roberto Clemente closes out spring training with a flourish. Clemente, last year’s Nationa ..read more

Catching up on some Pirates passings. Ott: https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...tcher-dies-72/ Swanson: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obit...anson-11632904 Washington: https://pittsburghbaseballnow.com/fo...on-dies-at-70 ..read more

Catching up on some former Pirates passings. DeLeon: https://nypost.com/2024/02/26/sports...er-dead-at-63/ Demery: https://pittsburghbaseballnow.com/fo...ry-dies-at-70/ McBean: https://www.virginislandsdailynews.c...9c0bcc0a2.html ..read more

Catching up on some former Pirates passings. Mejias: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obit...ejias-11170437 Priddy: https://www.youngfhinc.com/obituary/Robert-Priddy Ribant: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sp...1/70164239007 ..read more

Catching up on former Pirates passings. Dick Groat: https://apnews.com/article/dick-groa...5a0cf7d994e435 Dick Hall: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...ies-teams-dies Don Leppert: https://triblive.com/sports/don-lepp...es-dies-at-91 ..read more

Catching up on some Pirates passings: Joe Christopher: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/s...pher-dead.html Alex Cole: https://pittsburghbaseballnow.com/fo...le-dies-at-58/ Vic Davalillo: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/...sses-away.html ..read more

PIRATE FANS JUST UPDATED FOR 2023 I have a photo history CD/thumb drive of key years in Pirates history. CD/thumb drive contains complete photo player rosters for the following key years…..1952, 1960, 1971, 1979, 1990, and 2000 through 2023…. 2690 photos. Photos are grouped together on the CD/thumb drive by year so they can be viewed consecutively as a complete team. Every photo has a description under it: “2005 John Doe SS 05-09” meaning he was a shortstop for the Pirates from 2005 through 2009. CD/thumb drive also contains numerous photos of players from other years, over 100 photos of Fo ..read more

34 players suited up for them; 24 are still with us: Matt Alexander Dale Berra Bert Blyleven Doe Boyland John Candelaria Joe Coleman Mike Easler Tim Foli Phil Garner Gary Hargis Lee Lacy Bill Madlock Omar Moreno Steve Nicosia Ed Ott Dave Parker Rick Rhoden Don Robinson Enrique Romo Jim Rooker Manny Sanguillen Frank Taveras Kent Tekulve Ed Whitson ..read more

A question for the old-timers in here. Who would have won a 7-game series between the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates vs the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates? If you need a little help in remembering those teams and lineups the below will refresh your memory: https://johnbaranowski.wordpress.com...-1960-vs-1971 ..read more

No one had that on their bingo card for April 24th that's for sure. I thought I better post that now while it's happening, and without Oneil Cruz too ..read more