![]() ![]() Unfortunately, they were blown out in a four-game sweep by the vaunted “Murderer’s Row” New York Yankees team that won 110 games and had Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, who combined to hit 107 home runs that year. The 1927 Pirates still had Pie Traynor at third base, but young Paul Waner was the best player on the team. This team had Pie Traynor at third base and Max Carey in center field. They beat the Washington Senators in the 1925 series. The Pirates reached the World Series twice in the 1920s. You can imagine how Cobb felt about that. In that series, shortstop Honus Wagner hit. The best team in franchise history was the 1909 team that went 110-42 and beat the Detroit Tigers in the World Series. Deacon Phillippe started five of those games and won three. They finished in first place three straight years from 1901 to 1903 and represented the National League in the first ever World Series, which they lost to the Boston Americans, five games to three. ![]() The Pirates were very good in the early part of the 20th century. Even though they’d been known as the Pirates for many years, the first time the name appeared on the team’s uniforms was in 1912. Because of this, the team was known as the Pittsburg Pirates until Pittsburgh got its “h” back in 1911. Around this same time, the United States Board on Geographic Names forced the city of Pittsburgh to change their name to Pittsburg, by dropping the “h”. When the Athletics called them “piratical”, they adopted the nickname Pirates. The Alleghenys refused to release Bierbauer. They had mistakenly failed to include Beirbauer on their reserve list. While this was happening, the team signed second baseman Lou Bierbauer of the American Association’s Philadelphia Athletics, which enraged the owners of the Athletics. Soon after he did so, he joined the backers of the Burghers and re-purchased the National League franchise and re-chartered the team under a different corporate name. The owner of the Alleghenys, Dennis McKnight, was forced to return the franchise to the league. In 1890, the Alleghenys lost many of their star players to a rival club called the Pittsburgh Burghers of the Players League and had the worst season in franchise history, going 23-113. After five seasons in the AA, the team switched to the National League in 1887. They have a connection with the Alleghenys in the American Association, a team that originally played in Allegheny City, which was a separate city until it was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907. The Pittsburgh Pirates are one of the oldest franchises in baseball. We continue our off-season project with a look at the Pittsburgh Pirates All-Time 25-Man Roster. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports ![]()
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