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The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania based Major League Baseball and also plays in the Central Division of the National League. The Pittsburgh Pirates tickets are also quite popular with baseball lovers and enthusiasts. The team have won the World series Championships five times and were among the first teams to play in the 1st modern World Series. In 1901, those with Pittsburgh Pirates tickets would have been very thrilled because this team won three straight pennants from 1901 to 1903.
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About The Pittsburgh Pirates
The Pirates suffered some tremendous defeats and this didn’t go down well with those who had Pittsburgh Pirates tickets. The team lost the pennant to Chicago Cubs in 1938, which led to a major setback.
In 1903, the Pirates lost the first ever modern World Series ever played due to injuries to their starting pitchers. They lost the game to Boston. This loss, grieved those with Pittsburgh Pirates tickets, because they have been rooting for the Pirates to win this championship.
The Pirates were a pretty strong team even though they used the same star players over the next couple of years. The team pleased all Pittsburgh Pirates ticket holding fans when they won their first World Series title in 1909, they defeated the Detroit Tigers in seven games, in the same year when they opened Forbes Field (the team’s ballpark).
The Pirates found it quite difficult during the post World War II years, even though the team had a shinning star in Ralph Kiner. Kiner led the National League in home runs for seven years in a row – in 1946 through 1952. The Pittsburgh Pirates tickets were in very high demand, but the team were placed in first division once (in 1948). The Pirates ended up compiling one of the worst records in the history of Major League Baseball; they won only 42 games and lost 112 games (.273) and finished embarrassingly 54½ games out of first place, this disappointed every fan with Pittsburgh Pirates tickets.
In 1960, the Pirates featured eight All-Stars, but most people were of the opinion that the team will lose the World Series to the very powerful New York Yankees. Every holder of Pittsburgh Pirates tickets witnessed live one of the most memorable baseball games in history at the World Series. The Pirates were beaten by ten or more runs in three games, they won three close games and then quickly recovered from 7 – 4 deficit Game 7 and went on to become the World Series champions. This victory gladdened the hearts of all those who bought Pittsburgh Pirates tickets and shocked the hell out of the Pirates’ critics.
From 1961 to 1964, the Pirates really tried their best but could not post winning marks, and in 1967 the team fell back to .500 and they didn’t contend throughout the rest of the 1960’s – this off course affected the sales of Pittsburgh Pirates tickets.
The Pirates bounced back in 1970 and won their first five division titles over a period of seven years and in 1971 they also won their fourth World Series championship behind a .414 Series batting average by Clemente. Once again the Pittsburgh Pirates tickets became one of the hottest tickets in town. The Pirates also made history by being the first Major League Baseball team to field an all-black starting lineup in 1971. The team also made the playoffs in 1974 and 1975 but the team was defeated by the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds (Respectively).
The Pirates have won a total of five World Series titles, nine National League pennants, and nine Eastern Division titles. Now the Pirates play at PNC Park and desperately want to break out of the current funk and get back to those great seasons that typified the early 1900s and 1970s.
Fans with Pittsburgh Pirates tickets hope that the new additions to the team is well worth it, because the team’s only 2008 All-Star Nate McLouth was traded off in order to acquire Charlie Morton, Gorkys Hernandez and Jeff Locke who are all good prospects as far as the team is concerned. With all the trading going on in this team, Pittsburgh ticket holding fans should expect a whole lot from the Pirates this season and in 2010.
