He hit .351 with a NL-best 32 doubles in the 1903 campaign that sent the Pirates to the first World Series; six years later, as his numbers and playing time began to fade, Clarke surged anew and smacked the Pirates’ only two homers in the victorious Fall Classic against Detroit.

He played seven seasons at left field with the Pirates before heading to the West Coast. Waner said he learned how to hit from smacking corn-cobs on his father’s farm. In the first and only World Series he would ever participate in, Carey hit .458 with three steals—and became one of the Game Seven heroes with four hits, including three doubles in sending the Washington Senators to defeat. That he didn’t get his number 11 retired by the Pirates until 2007 was an outrageous oversight; it took surviving family members to get it done, and only after they had directly contacted the Pirates’ front office and gave its executives a history lesson. But in 1979, Stargell continued on a second wind he had caught late the year before and had a renaissance campaign, hitting .281 with 32 homers and 82 RBIs in 126 games; but it was his father-figure guidance and upbeat leadership upon the team’s younger, talented players that proved valuable in forging a postseason spot. This station is part of Cox Media Group Television. He had 8,429 at bats, 2,868 hits and a .340 average. In 1972, a midseason injury cut the 38-year-old Clemente’s activity to a career-low 102 games, but he still hit .312; in his last at-bat of the year, he became the first Pirate ever to reach 3,000 hits—and three days later, by appearing as a defensive replacement on the season’s final day, he tied Honus Wagner for the most games played in Pirates history at 2,433. The Phillies won 6-3. He said his eyes made the baseball appear fuzzy, but it was the size of a grapefruit, allowing him to hit the center more often. The hard-working Bonds put it all together in 1990, winning his first of two MVPs for the Pirates (and first of seven he would win throughout his illustrious yet controversial career), hitting .301 with 33 homers, 114 RBIs, 93 walks and 52 steals. Stargell finished the year as NLCS MVP, World Series MVP, and co-NL MVP (with St. Louis’ Keith Hernandez), making him the oldest recipient of the honor until Barry Bonds grabbed one at 40.

The 1980s A brutal decade as the steel mills laid off more than 150,000 workers. It was a fitting end to a decade in which Stargell led the majors with 296 homers. Shortstop features one of the all-time greats at the position in Honus Wagner, along with another shortstop who is among the top 10 in history, Arky Vaughan. Have a comment, question or request? Stargell leads the majors in home runs. The Pirates’ 10 Greatest Pitchers A list of the 10 greatest pitchers based on their productivity and efficiency. Yes, the team almost lost 1,000 times in 10 years, but at least Jason Bay did a heckuva job. He had 240 home runs and 1,305 RBI. He played 1,411 games, had 5,268 at bats, 1,709 hits and a .324 average. Unfortunately, the Pirates wouldn’t even sniff a World Series for 35 years.

Clarke debuted in the majors for Louisville in 1894 with a five-hit game and within three years was managing the Colonels at age 24. He played in 2,163 games, had 7,755 at bats and 2,016 hits for a .260 average. Kiner was done with the game just two years after his exit from Pittsburgh, with 369 career homers in 1,472 games.

There was only one winning season in the decade, so now maybe people can understand how improbable the 1960 World Series win was. But that just meant we got the bad news a lot quicker. He is a five-time All Star, a four-time Silver Slugger, and has won the Gold Glove award and the Roberto Clemente Award.

All statistics are through the 2019 season.

As Clemente entered his late 30s, he only seemed to get better—hitting over .340 from 1969-71. A year later, he would win his first batting title while pacing the NL with 237 hits, 18 triples and 131 RBIs; he would win two more batting titles (in 1934 and 1936) while collecting 200-plus hits eight times for a franchise record. He was a four time All Star, won the Gold Glove Award three times, was a two time Batting Title MVP and won a World Series. Vaughan took advantage of Forbes Field’s spacious outfield distances as a three-time NL leader in triples, topping out at 19 in 1933; though he hit only 96 career homers, he’s remembered as the first player to hit two in an All-Star Game (1941). In Rickey’s eyes, Kiner was one-dimensional and not the ideal ballplayer—and early in 1953, Rickey shipped him along with three teammates to the Chicago Cubs for six players and $150,000. From its founding in 1881 to the most recent season, Channel 11 Sports ranked the top 11 Pirates players of all time. In 1,346 games here, he had 5,033 at bats and 1,463 hits for a .291 average. The last decade at Three Rivers Stadium started with a bang but ended with a thud. Despite their best attempts to “hide” Clemente in Montreal from other scouts, the Pirates knew well of him already and swooped him up. He was a seven-time All Star, an eight-time Gold Glove winner, was the Major League Player of the Year and won two World Series.

A bar in McKeesport is rumored to have coined the phrase “speakeasy.” Which meant “keep quiet about the hooch or some copper will pinch you, see.” You couldn’t drink at the games legally, but the Pirates and Pie Traynor roared through the decade and won it all in 1925. But the Pirates certainly were not. The Mad Dog won two batting titles in 1981 and 1983 and was the only bright spot for fans who had seen much better days. The fiery Clarke presided over the Pirates’ most sustained period of winning as the team’s manager and outfielder, repeatedly proving he was good at both. When Greenberg left after one year, they renamed Forbes’ left field section from “Greenberg’s Gardens” to “Kiner’s Korner.”, The prime of Kiner’s career was full of tremendous feats. In explaining the move, Rickey echoed something he once told Kiner during a salary dispute: “We’ve finished last with you, and we’ll finish last without you.”. But as outstanding as he was during the regular season in helping the Pirates to three straight NL East titles, he was just as awful in three straight NLCS losses that followed—hitting .191 with a single home run and just three RBIs in 20 games. He was a six-time All Star, a seven-time National League Home Run Leader, was the National League RBI leader once and is in the Hall of Fame. For the decade, the Pirates were a very respectable 812-718. Nicknamed “The Cobra," Parker hit 166 home runs and had 758 RBI. It took nearly 10 years, but Stargell finally hit his prime in the early 1970s when he constantly hit at or near .300 and twice led the NL in homers—launching a career-high 48 in 1971, a season in which he had two three-homer games just 11 days apart. CLICK HERE to find out how. Not even Paul Waner, Lloyd Waner or Arky Vaughn could lift the spirits of people during the Great Depression. After his average revived to a sparkling .324 in 1911, Clarke suddenly retired from playing, focusing on full-time managing duties for the next four years before stepping down entirely. Any time someone outside the 412 mentions Michael Keaton, Wiz Khalifa or Christina Aguilera, we are sure to remind them from where they came.

So far this decade, the Pirates are a winning franchise at 614-567. In game #7, Walter Johnson took the loss and the Pirates at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh stayed home with a 9-7 World Series clinching victory. After playing his last game in 1917, Wagner totaled 3,420 hits to currently rank him seventh on the all-time list; his 723 steals put him at 10th. Team Names: Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Alleghenys Seasons: 139 (1882 to 2020) Record: 10564-10446, .503 W-L% Playoff Appearances: 17 Pennants: 9 World Championships: 5 Winningest Manager: Fred Clarke, 1422-969, … The Pirates’ 10 Most Memorable Games A list of 10 memorable games and other notable personal achievements that have defined the Pirates’ history. Pittsburgh-area mail carrier under investigation is apparent QAnon conspiracy theorist, Alexis Johnson, Pittsburgh journalist banned from covering protests, lands job at Vice, Breaking Bread: The lessons Take a Negro to Lunch day bring to the modern day Black Lives Matter movement, August Wilson House debuts "August in August" virtual community festival, August Wilson to receive star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival 2020 will be "a digital celebration", After backlash, August Wilson Center restores "African American" to its name, Iron City Front is a new, anti-fascist supporters' group for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds, Players and coaches are not nameless gray faces, Adam Crowley: Don’t buy the “depth” talk coming from Penguins coach Mike Sullivan, Photo courtesy of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Discovered by future New York Yankee general manager Ed Barrow in 1895, Wagner developed into a top player for the NL’s Louisville Colonels and became a member of the Pirates when the Colonels became victims of a four-team contraction after 1899, reducing NL membership from 12 teams to eight. The first professional athlete to earn an average of $1 million a year, Dave Parker played right field for 19 seasons in the MLB, 11 of them in Pittsburgh. He had astigmatism, a vision issue that does not allow the eyes to focus at any distance, but did not like wearing glasses while playing. But in the Bucs’ 1960 championship season, he began to click, hitting .314 with 16 homers and 94 RBIs; a year later, his average surged to .351, resulting in the first of four batting titles over the next seven years. The Pittsburgh Pirates have had plenty of great players. Arky Vaughan was the youngest player in the National League in 1932, but he ended up playing nearly 130 games that season because of injuries to other players.

After powering 23 homers as a 1946 rookie, Kiner became the fortuitous benefactor of veteran star slugger Hank Greenberg’s arrival and ensuing tutorage in Pittsburgh. A free agent after 1992 and intent on putting Pittsburgh in his rear-view mirror, Bonds was plucked away with a lucrative deal from the San Francisco Giants, whom he would remain with for his final 15 seasons, reaching one home run milestone after another under suspicion of steroid use. In this decade, we also started checking the Pirates box scores on our phones instead of the newspaper. Waner played 15 seasons with the Pirates at right field and played in 2,154 games. His lifetime .340 average with Pittsburgh is the all-time highest and very likely will never be broken. In 1927, Waner was joined by his younger and even smaller (135 pounds) brother Lloyd—a solid contact hitter in his own right who would hit .316 with 2,459 career hits over an 18-year career—and together they lifted the Pirates to the World Series, hitting a combined .367 (as opposed to a .180 figure by the rest of the team), but they were overwhelmed in four games by the famed 1927 Yankees. On the field, the nose candy wasn’t exactly enhancing anyone’s performance as the team floundered with a 732-825 record.

He was a two-time All Star, won the 1925 World Series and is in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Right field has two of the best in history—Roberto Clemente and Paul Waner. But nobody cared because they were drunk or on ’ludes and heading to the red-light district on Liberty Avenue. He smashed 138 home runs and had 853 RBI. And so it would be over the next 14 years, all winning campaigns for the Pirates with four NL flags and one world title, in 1909 over Detroit. A solid decade (848-755) at Forbes Field where opposing teams couldn’t get anything past the team’s second-best player of the decade, Bill Mazeroski.

Flappers, Hollywood and the Pittsburgh crime family all had a pretty good decade. That includes 84 home runs and 764 RBI. In 1947, Kiner twice cleared the fence three times in a game, and in a four-game stretch over three days slammed eight over the fence. In a full seven games, the Pittsburgh Pirates won the 1925 series outlasting the Senators. Titled the “ABC Affair” because the plaintiffs included an “A” (pitching vet Babe Adams), “B” (Carson Bigbee) and “C” (Carey), the scandal led to the immediate ouster of all three players. So, with a nod to Wilson, here are the best Pittsburgh Pirates over the past 10 decades — the Pirates Cycle.

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