1. The Pittsburgh Pirates originally selected eight players to go to the fall league.
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5. On December 13, 2014, the Pittsburgh Pirates unveiled a new camo alternate jersey, which honors the soldiers in the Armed Forces.
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7. Along with the San Francisco Giants, the Pittsburgh Pirates are one of two pre-expansion National League teams that completely changed their colors, although red returned as an "accent color" in 1997 and remained until 2009.
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11. In 2013 the Pittsburgh Pirates became the seventh MLB team to reach 10,000 all-time wins.
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13. The Pittsburgh Pirates have had many ups and downs during their long history, most famously winning the 1960 World Series against the New York Yankees on a game-winning walk-off home run by Bill Mazeroski, the only time that Game 7 of the World Series has ever ended with a home run.
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