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The Pittsburgh Pirates are an American professional ___MASK61___ team based in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . The Pirates compete in Major League ___MASK61___ ( MLB ) as a member club of the National League ( NL ) Central division . The Pirates play their home games at PNC Park ; the team previously played at Forbes Field and Three Rivers Stadium , the latter of which was named after its location near the confluence of the Allegheny , Monongahela , and Ohio Rivers . Founded on October 15 , 1881 as Allegheny , the franchise has won five World Series championships . The Pirates are also often referred to as the " Bucs " or the " Buccos " ( derived from buccaneer , a synonym for pirate ). George Edward Martin Van Haltren ( March 30 , 1866  September 29 , 1945 ) was an American center fielder in Major League ___MASK61___ . In his 17 - year career , lasting from 1887 through 1903 , he played for the Chicago White Stockings , Brooklyn Ward ' s Wonders , Baltimore Orioles , Pittsburgh Pirates , and New York Giants . He also served as player - manager of the Orioles in 1892 . Van Haltren recorded 2 , 544 career hits and a batting average of . 316 . The Brooklyn Ward ' s Wonders was a team who played in the Players ' League in 1890 . The team ' s nickname derived from its superstar shortstop , hall of famer John Montgomery Ward . The team finished with a 76 - 56 record , good enough to finish in second place . Other notable players for Brooklyn that year were Dave Orr , George Van Haltren , and Gus Weyhing . The team folded after the season along with the entire league . The team played its home games at Eastern Park . The Louisville Colonels were a Major League ___MASK61___ team that played in the American Association ( AA ) throughout that league ' s ten - year existence from 1882 until 1891 . They were known as the Louisville Eclipse from 1882 to 1884 , and as the Louisville Colonels from 1885 to 1891 . The latter name derived from the historic Kentucky colonels . After the AA folded in 1891 , the Colonels joined the National League and played through the 1899 season . The 1891 Brooklyn Grooms ( the name was shortened from `` Bridegrooms '' this season ) started the year with real estate mogul George Chauncey purchasing a controlling interest in the ballclub to join Ferdinand Abell and Charles Byrne in the ownership group . The former owner of the Brooklyn Ward ' s Wonders in the now defunct Players ' League , Chauncey organized a merger of his team with the Grooms , forcing the firing of manager Bill McGunnigle ( despite his winning two league championships ) and replacing him with former Wonders manager and shortstop , John Montgomery Ward . The new owner also thought the team could generate larger revenue from a bigger stadium , so they decided to move the team to his stadium , Eastern Park . Games would be split between the new facility and old Washington Park during the 1891 season and the team would move full - time in 1892 . With all the turmoil , the team fell back into the pack , finishing the season in sixth place . ___MASK61___ is a bat - and - ball game played between two teams of nine players each , who take turns batting and fielding . Shortstop , abbreviated SS , is the ___MASK61___ or softball fielding position between second and third base , which is considered to be among the most demanding defensive positions . The position is mostly filled by defensive specialists , so shortstops are generally relatively poor batters who bat later in the batting order , with some exceptions . In the numbering system used by scorers to record defensive plays , the shortstop is assigned the number 6 . August " Gus " Weyhing ( September 29 , 1866  September 4 , 1955 ) was a pitcher for nine professional ___MASK61___ teams in a career that spanned 14 years from to . He was small for a pitcher by today ' s standards , listed at 5 feet 10 inches tall and between 120 and 145 pounds . He enjoyed quite a bit of success , winning 25 games or more for six years in a row , capped by a 32 win season in for the Philadelphia Phillies . He completed 46 of his 49 starts that year , hurled six shutouts , and logged 469 innings pitched . He collected 216 wins in his first eight professional seasons . Weyhing was nicknamed " Cannonball ", " Rubber Arm ", and " Rubber - Winged Gus ". Weyhing was known to be a poor hitter and suspect fielder . He holds the dubious honor of having hit the most batters in a career ( 277 ). Brockton is a city in Plymouth County , Massachusetts , United States ; the population was 95 , 314 in the 2015 Census . Brockton , along with Plymouth , are the county seats of Plymouth County . Brockton is the seventh largest city in Massachusetts and is sometimes referred to as the " City of Champions ", due to the success of native boxers Rocky Marciano and Marvin Hagler , as well as its successful Brockton High School sports programs . Two of the villages within the city are Montello and Campello , both have the distinction of having their own MBTA Commuter Rail Stations and post offices . Campello is the smallest neighborhood in the city , but also the most populous . Brockton hosts a ___MASK61___ team , the Brockton Rox . Brockton is one of the windiest cities in the United States , with an average wind speed of 14 . 3 mph . David L . Orr ( September 29 , 1859  June 2 , 1915 ) was a first baseman in Major League ___MASK61___ from 1883 through 1890 . Orr played most of his career in the American Association for the New York Metropolitans ( 1883  1887 ), Brooklyn Bridegrooms ( 1888 ) and Columbus Solons ( 1889 ). He also played for the New York Gothams in the National League for one game in 1883 and for the Brooklyn Ward ' s Wonders of the Players ' League in 1890 . The Players ' National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs , popularly known as the Players ' League ( sometimes rendered as Players League ), was a short - lived but star - studded professional American ___MASK61___ league of the 19th century . It emerged from the Brotherhood of Professional Base - Ball Players , the sport ' s first players ' union . Eastern Parkway is a major boulevard that runs through a portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn . The road begins at Grand Army Plaza and extends east , ___MASK43___ parallel to Atlantic Avenue , along the crest of the moraine that separates northern from southern Long Island , to Ralph Avenue . There , it turns to the northeast , still following the moraine , until it terminates at Evergreen Cemetery where the moraine takes a steep climb towards a peak at Ridgewood Reservoir . The National League of Professional ___MASK61___ Clubs , known simply as the National League ( NL ), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League ___MASK61___ ( MLB ) in the United States and Canada , and the world ' s oldest current professional team sports league . Founded on February 2 , 1876 , to replace the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players , it is sometimes called the Senior Circuit , in contrast to MLB ' s other league , the American League , which was founded 25 years later . Both leagues currently have 15 teams . The two league champions of 1903 arranged to compete against each other in the inaugural World Series . After the 1904 champions failed to reach a similar agreement , the two leagues formalized the World Series as an arrangement between the leagues . National League teams have won 48 of the 112 World Series contested from 1903 to 2016 . The 2016 National League champions are the Chicago Cubs . Eastern Park was a ___MASK61___ park in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn , New York in the 1890s . It was bounded by Eastern Parkway ( which was later renamed Pitkin Avenue when Eastern Parkway was diverted ) to the north ( home plate ); the Long Island Rail Road and Vesta Avenue ( later renamed Van Sinderen Street ) to the east ( left field ); Sutter Avenue to the south ( center field ); and Powell Street to the west ( right field ). The ballpark held 12 , 000 people . William Henry McGunnigle ( January 1 , 1855 in Boston , Massachusetts  March 9 , 1899 in Brockton , Massachusetts ) was an American ___MASK61___ manager for the Brooklyn Bridegrooms , Pittsburgh Pirates and Louisville Colonels . He was nicknamed " Gunner " or " Mac " during his playing days .