14 Facts About Pittsburgh Pirates

1. The Pittsburgh Pirates originally selected eight players to go to the fall league.

2. The Pittsburgh Pirates have a potential new shortstop on their club for 2019.

3. The Pittsburgh Pirates have traded outfielder Jordan Luplow and infielder but don't expect to see either in Pittsburgh in the next four years.

4. On February 18, 2016, the Pittsburgh Pirates unveiled a new throwback alternate uniform in the style of the 1979 team.

5. On December 13, 2014, the Pittsburgh Pirates unveiled a new camo alternate jersey, which honors the soldiers in the Armed Forces.

6. The Pittsburgh Pirates ditched the pullover style in favor of the traditional button-down style in 1991, one of the last teams to switch.

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.

8. The Pittsburgh Pirates have long had a radio network that has extended across four states.

9. In 2007, the Pittsburgh Pirates chose to end the longest relationship between a team and a radio station in American professional sports.

10. On September 21, 1963 the Pittsburgh Pirates were the first MLB team to have an African-American manager in Gene Baker, as he filled in for Danny Murtaugh.

11. In 2013 the Pittsburgh Pirates became the seventh MLB team to reach 10,000 all-time wins.

12. The Pittsburgh Pirates made the playoffs in both 2014 and 2015, losing in the Wild Card Game both times.

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.

14. The Pittsburgh Pirates are often referred to as the "Bucs" or the "Buccos".