Thirty-Two Days a Pirate: The Goodloe “Pud” Rogers Story
In the summer of 1914, the Pittsburgh Pirates had a catcher named Goodloe Rogers on their active roster for 32…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: The Forgotten 1909 Player
On August 14, 1909, the Gazette Times in Pittsburgh announced that the Pittsburgh Pirates signed Kemper Shelton the previous day.…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: Dick Hall
Most of the previous Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates articles deal with players who were around before a very large majority of…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: Fred Brickell
On July 24, 1926, the headlines in the Pittsburgh Daily Post read “The Pirates Buy Outfielder Star From Wichita”. One…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: Jim Gray
This is a first for this feature because there are no known baseball photos of Jim Gray, and trust me,…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: Alex McCarthy
In August of 1910, the Pittsburgh Pirates acquired a large group of minor league players from across the country. Two…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: Ed Fitz Gerald
We moved up Ed Fitz Gerald on our Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates feature because we recently found out that he passed…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: Grover Hartley
When I wrote up the recent Game Rewind featuring Honus Wagner playing against the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1933, I mentioned…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: Ken Heintzelman
Ken Heintzelman was a left-handed pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1937 until 1947, though three of those years he…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: Dick Bartell
I went back and forth on whether or not to use Dick Bartell in an Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates feature or…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: Aubrey Epps
This article was originally going to be a Game Rewind article. I got asked recently about the highest lifetime batting…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: Pete Castiglione
Pete Castiglione spent the majority of his eight-year big league career with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He debuted in the majors…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: Pep Young
You won’t find too many players who spent eight years with one team and they’re as obscure as Pittsburgh Pirates…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: Ed Whitson
In our series of articles called The One Who Got Away, we look at players who the Pittsburgh Pirates parted…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: Jim Hughey & Bill Hart
For our tenth Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates article I wanted to do something a little different. Instead of focusing on one…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: Paul Popovich
This is part nine in our Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates series, and I wanted to find someone more recent for this…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: Heinie Meine
Heinie Meine has a baseball name that seems easy to remember, but his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates almost never…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: Jim Russell
The Pittsburgh Pirates acquired outfielder Jim Russell during the minor league draft in 1941, and they traded him for a…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: Denny Gonzalez
This is the sixth player we have featured in our Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates series. The links to the first five…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: Reb Russell
Three weeks ago we started a new history feature called Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates. This feature will be a regular article on…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: Nick Strincevich
Three weeks ago we started a new history feature called Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates. The definition of obscure for baseball players changes…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: Odell Jones
Two weeks ago we started a new history feature called Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates. This feature will be a regular article on…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: Cy Blanton
Last week we started a new history feature called Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates. This feature will be a regular article on our…
Obscure Pittsburgh Pirates: George Grantham
One of the new features we have planned for the history site on the upcoming Pittsburgh Baseball Network is Obscure…
