Barney Dreyfus postcard and Pittsburgh Pirates season schedule, 1906, 1960 [manuscript]
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Pittsburgh Pirates (Baseball team)
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The City of Pttsburgh's first nationally recognized professional baseball club was the Pittsburgh Alleghenies which joined the National League in 1887. The Alleghenies became the Pirates in 1891 when they were accused of "pirating" players from the rival American Association (later the American League). The name stuck. The Pirates participated in the first World Series in 1903 losing to the Boston Red Sox five games to three. The Pirates went on to win World Series titles in 1909, 1925, 1960, 19...
Dreyfus, Barney, 1865-1932.
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Pittsburgh Pirates.
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The five-time world champion Pittsburgh Pirates began as the Alleghenies in 1876, so named because of their geographic location in what was then Allegheny City, Pa. In 1882, the Alleghenies became part of the American Association and remained there until 1887 when it joined the National League. Four years later, the team signed Lou Bierbauer, who, in, theory was already signed to the Philadelphia Athletics. The Pittsburgh team won the arbitration suit, but was known from then on as the Pirates, ...
