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Celebrating #Pittsburgh #Pirates #baseball focusing on 1986-1992 Leyland-Bonds years, using video, pictures, OTD notes, memes, & art. #Buccos #MLB #LetsGoBucs
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Forget “Enter the Sandman” or Timmy Trumpet.
The coolest closer entrance in MLB history is “The Rubberband Man” by The Spinners for
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
closer Kent Tekulve. 😎
#Teke
#LetsGoBucs
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This video shot by the Pirates of Cutch’s reaction to Santana’s homer reminded me of the closing credits to “This Week in Baseball.”
Enjoy
#LetsGoBucs
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Welcome to the Pittsburgh Pirates, Paul Skenes
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Awesome to see
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
legends Kent Tekulve and Dave Parker together again!
#LetsGoBucs
#Teke
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The greatest rivalry in sports is the Pittsburgh Pirates vs Home Plate in Atlanta 😬
The Pirates thought they scored the go-ahead run in the 10th inning. The Braves challenged the call.
OUT.
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Carlos Santana walks it off with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th! 2-run HR
Greg Brown radio 📻 call:
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
#LetsGoBucs
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At his Hall of Fame election press conference this afternoon, Jim Leyland was asked about which team’s hat would appear on his plaque.
The former manager of the
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
, Florida Marlins, Colorado Rockies, and Detroit Tigers gave a very thoughtful answer.
#LetsGoBucs
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Remembering
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
legendary rightfielder, humanitarian, and Hall of Fame Player and Person Roberto Clemente on what would have been his 89th birthday (8/18/1934). ⚾️
“The Great One”
Long May You Run!
#LetsGoBucs
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How much
#Pittsburgh
loved 🥰 Jim Leyland was on full display at the 1994
#AllStarGame
Congrats on a Hall of Fame career!
#Pirates
#LetsGoBucs
#MLB
#HallOfFame
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Remembering
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
legendary rightfielder, humanitarian, and Hall of Fame Player and Person Roberto Clemente (8/18/1934 - 12/31/1972). ⚾️
“The Great One”
Long May You Run!
#LetsGoBucs
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Remembering
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
legendary rightfielder, humanitarian, and Hall of Fame Player and Person Roberto Clemente on what would have been his 90th birthday (8/18/1934). ⚾️
“The Great One”
Long May You Run!
#LetsGoBucs
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Greg Brown’s radio call of the Pirates taking a 13-9 lead, after trailing 9-0.
It’s the largest comeback in Pittsburgh history, as the Buccos held on to win 13-12.
#LetsGoBucs
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Ji Hwan Bae said in the post-game interview his walk-off celebration was an homage to Cutch!
Side-by-side comparison:
#LetsGoBucs
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
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#LetsGoBucs
🏴☠️
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Former
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
manager Jim Leyland has been elected to the Baseball
#HallofFame
!
Here’s Andy Van Slyke, Sean Casey, Gary Sheffield, Barry Bonds, & more on Jim’s legendary clubhouse blow-ups 😡 😤:
#LetsGoBucs
#Tigers
#Marlins
#Rockies
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4/27/1993:
Something you will NEVER see in MLB again!
Knuckleball-specialist Tim Wakefield throws 170 PITCHES for
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
in 10 innings vs
#Atlanta
#Braves
!
#LetsGoBucs
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Andy Van Slyke on teammate Mike LaValliere:
"He ruins it for the rest of the players."
"He's 40 pounds overweight, and he goes up and gets a hit. Then the guy in the stands with 3 beers who's 40 pounds overweight says, 'Hey, I can do that, too.'”
#LetsGoBucs
#BeLikeMike
🏴☠️
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OTD 30 years ago (6/4/92):
On a rainy day, Bryan Trottier, hoisting Lord Stanley’s chalice over his head, turns the tarp into a giant slip‘n slide for
#Pittsburgh
#Penguins
#StanleyCup
celebration at Three Rivers Stadium 🏟 .
#LetsGoPens
#LetsGoBucs
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Barry Bonds was responsible for carrying
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
Mgr Jim Leyland off the field twice: in 1990 (w/Smiley) & again in 1992 (w/McClendon).
In 2017, Bonds said:
“I would have went through a brick wall for that man. And still would.”
#LetsGoBucs
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
Prime suspect has been identified as cause of large smoke cloud💨 that has enveloped the Northeast United States.
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
#LetsGoBucs
#Detroit
#Tigers
#MakeItMiami
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Remembering legendary
#Queen
frontman Freddie Mercury, on the anniversary of his birth (9/5/1946). A staple of the Three Rivers Stadium 🏟 Jumbotron in the 90s was this bit from the TV show “Cheers” to fire up the
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
fans!
#LetsGoBucs
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How much
#Pittsburgh
loved 🥰 Jim Leyland was on full display OTD 7/12 at the 1994
#AllStarGame
#Pirates
#LetsGoBucs
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OTD 6/4/92:
On a rainy day, Bryan Trottier, hoisting Lord Stanley’s chalice over his head, turns the tarp into a giant slip‘n slide for
#Pittsburgh
#Penguins
#StanleyCup
celebration at Three Rivers Stadium 🏟 .
#LetsGoPens
#LetsGoBucs
#Pirates
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Are you kidding me?!! Jaromir Jagr on the ice for warmups with the Pittsburgh Penguins tonight on his jersey retirement night?! 🤯
What year is it?!
#LetsGoPens
#Celebrate68
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Today’s ceremonial first pitch:
Bert Blyleven
Jim Rooker
John Candelaria
Don Robinson
Kent Tekulve
1979 World Series Champion
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
#LetsGoBucs
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Remembering
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
legendary rightfielder, humanitarian, and Hall of Fame Player and Person Roberto Clemente (8/18/1934 - 12/31/1972). ⚾️
“The Great One”
Long May You Run!
#LetsGoBucs
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9/14/88:
Who wants to see Stan Savran, classy gentleman that he was, wearing a tux 🤵♂️ & delivering the
#Pirates
highlights for WTAE?!✋ 👍
#Pittsburgh
will miss you, Stan.
#LetsGoBucs
#LoveTheShow
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Remembering the “concrete donut” that used to sit at the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers on this
#NationalDonutDay
🍩
#LetsGoBucs
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OTD 6/24/88:
Andy Van Slyke: "the best catch I've made since I've been in the majors."
Bob Walk: "I'd already decided it was a gapper. I was trying to decide which base to go back up."
🎥: 1988
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
📼
#LetsGoBucs
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Carmen Mlodzinski throws the final pitch as the Pittsburgh Pirates complete the greatest comeback in their history!
Trailing 9-0, they hang on to win 13-12 vs Cincinnati Reds!
Greg Brown radio 📻 call:
#LetsGoBucs
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Willie used a 36-inch, 38-ounce bat and swung it with the ease of a whiffle ball bat.
Here’s Willie Stargell taking batting practice shirtless like the goddamn folk hero he was.
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I don’t think there was a Pittsburgh kid alive in the early 80s who didn’t windmill their bat like Willie, throw their pitches submarine-style like Teke, or play catcher like Tony.
#LetsGoBucs
Tony Pena was a hell of a lot of fun to watch behind the plate. I know some of y’all remember.
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Another
#OpeningDay
is upon us, and maybe even the most jaded baseball fan among us will admit that:
“In
#Pittsburgh
, we believe the
#Pirates
will come through!”
#LetsGoBucs
🏴☠️
#YouGottaBelieve
Let’s make some new history to be proud of in 2024.
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Congratulations
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
’ Andrew McCutchen on career home run number 300!
Here’s Greg Brown and Bob Walk’s radio 📻 call of the historic moment!
#LetsGoBucs
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“The Outfield of Dreams”
Pittsburgh Pirates outfielders
Barry Bonds, Andy Van Slyke, and Bobby Bonilla
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Congrats go out to an awesome career to former
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
catcher Russell Martin! Enjoy your retirement!
Cueto dropping the ball in the Wild Card game would never even be talked about today if Russell hadn’t made him pay with a home run on the next pitch!
#LetsGoBucs
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OTD 10/17/1971
After winning the
#WorldSeries
MVP,
#Pirates
’ Roberto Clemente was interviewed live on TV, & what followed was one of his most iconic moments:
“Roberto was breaking the mould, saying ‘yes I will talk to you, but first let me talk to my family and my community.’”
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This picture goes so hard
#LetsGoBucs
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I miss
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
🏴☠️ playoff baseball ⚾️
#FlashbackFriday
to the early 90s and the electric atmosphere of 57,000+ screaming
#Buccos
fans, as Andy Van Slyke, Bobby Bonilla, and Barry Bonds are introduced!
#LetsGoBucs
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OTD 35 YEARS AGO 6/24/88:
Andy Van Slyke: "the best catch I've made since I've been in the majors."
Bob Walk: "I'd already decided it was a gapper. I was trying to decide which base to go back up."
🎥: 1988
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
📼
#LetsGoBucs
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Name a “that jersey doesn’t look right” player from any sport.
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Yellow batting helmet poll:
1. yes
2. HELL YES
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
Prime suspect has been identified as cause of large smoke cloud💨 that has enveloped Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Stay indoors! Stay safe
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
#LetsGoBucs
#Detroit
#Tigers
#MakeItMiami
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How much
#Pittsburgh
loved 🥰 Jim Leyland was on full display at the 1994
#AllStarGame
Congratulations on a
#HallOfFame
Career, Skip!
#Pirates
#LetsGoBucs
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Pretty sure every kid in Pittsburgh who swung a bat, of a certain age, imitated the windmill!
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One word to describe former
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
CF Andy Van Slyke:
#wow
#MLB
#baseball
#Buccos
#LetsGoBucs
#80s
#90s
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@nut_history
You’ve seen the confrontation between Bonds & Leyland 1000 times.
This is the aftermath:
(Credit:MLB Network)
#LetsGoBucs
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Hall of Famer Bert Blyleven with Pittsburgh Pirates rookie phenom Paul Skenes 🤝
#LetsGoBucs
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Barry Bonds was responsible for carrying
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
manager Jim Leyland off the field twice: once in 1990 (w/John Smiley) & again in 1992 (w/Lloyd McClendon).
In 2017, Bonds said:
“I would have went through a brick wall for that man. And still would.”
#LetsGoBucs
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OTD 6/4/92:
On a rainy day, Bryan Trottier, hoisting Lord Stanley’s chalice over his head, turns the tarp into a giant slip‘n slide for
#Pittsburgh
#Penguins
#StanleyCup
celebration at Three Rivers Stadium 🏟 .
#LetsGoPens
#LetsGoBucs
#Pirates
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Question for men:
I recently found out that some men think about cool jackets at least once a day. Like a jacket they once saw. Or a jacket they desire. Or how if they owned a specific jacket, they would wear it to this nice little thing.
Menfolk, do you all do this?
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If you’re over 30, you’ll be able to hear this tweet …
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The incident set up something bigger a few weeks later. Belcher head-hunted Don Slaught &benches cleared. Bonilla recalled almost getting his head taken off by Belcher &was livid!
Then one of the great
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
comebacks occurred!
#LetsGoBucs
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How much
#Pittsburgh
loved 🥰 Jim Leyland was on full display at the 1994
#AllStarGame
Today the soon-to-be enshrined Hall of Famer throws out the first pitch for the
#Pirates
home opener!
#LetsGoBucs
#MLB
#HallOfFame
#OpeningDay
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OTD 5/26/92:
A young Christina Aguilera sings the National Anthem before Game 1 of the 1992 Stanley Cup Final between the
#Pittsburgh
#Penguins
and the
#Chicago
#Blackhawks
at the Civic Arena!
#LetsGoPens
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Remembering Vincent Price, born OTD (5/27/1911)! No doubt the inspiration for this classic Three Rivers Stadium scoreboard clip, the “Laughing Pirate”, that would play after
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
and MLB bloopers:
#LetsGoBucs
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The Strip has everything
Any Mike Dunne shirts available? Asking for John Steigerwald.
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Former
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
pitcher Doug Drabek gets pranked by Mike LaValliere & Buccos’ staff in this classic video. Spanky & the gang plant baseball equipment in the trunk of Doug’s car, where the “stolen” gear is found during a search by police! 👮♀️
#AprilFoolsDay
#LetsGoBucs
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HBD 🎂 6/9/1951 Dave Parker aka The Cobra 🐍
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
1973-1983 numbers:
4x All-Star
3x Gold Glove
2x NL Batting Champ
1978 NL MVP
1979 World Series champ
.305/.353/.494
OPS+ 131 34.8 WAR
And a cannon for a throwing arm! 💪
#LetsGoBucs
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OTD 8/24/1993:
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
Mgr Jim Leyland snaps!😡 😤
#Dodgers
’ Kevin Gross hit Kevin Young in the neck. Next time up to bat, Bob Walk hit Gross in retaliation, & was ejected w/no warning. Leyland was ejected, too, then charged Gross, igniting a brawl!
#LetsGoBucs
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Happy
#AprilFoolsDay
!
Former
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
pitcher Doug Drabek gets pranked by Mike LaValliere:
Spanky & the gang plant baseball equipment in the trunk of Doug’s car, where the “stolen” gear is found during a search by police!
#LetsGoBucs
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Remembering
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
Hall of Famer Willie Stargell ⭐️ on the anniversary of his birth, 3/6/1940. I only saw the last years of his career. For me, Pops was like a hero of Greek mythology- his epic HR’s into upper decks & swimming pools the stuff of legend.
#LetsGoBucs
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@nut_history
Bonds, 2021: “I’m almost grateful he did cuss me out because it helped us grow so close that there’s nothing that could ever separate us.”
#LetsGoBucs
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POV: me, hearing that Cutch is back with the Pirates
And something bigger may be brewing for 2024 👀
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OTD 5/14/89: For the 1st time since 1980, a left-handed catcher 🤯 appeared in MLB:
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
Benny Distefano caught the 9th vs ATL.
There has not been a left-handed catcher in MLB since Distefano in the 1989 season.
#LetsGoBucs
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OTD 35 Years Ago 7/11/88:
All Star ⭐️ Old-Timers Game.
Reputed spitballer Gaylord Perry was pitching when fmr
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
Al Oliver requested the ball be inspected.
Perry poured a cup of water over the ball in response.
Oliver then hit a HR! 💪
#LetsGoBucs
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Andrew McCutchen returns!
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
#MLB
#baseball
#LetsGoBucs
#Cutch
This one hits a little different with Diddy.
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Memo to the Pirates:
You need to bring these 3 guys back.
You don’t have to retire any jerseys.
Just give us a night to celebrate and remember.
#LetsGoBucs
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Can someone stitch together a bunch of
@thecutch22
highlights with that "I'm coming home" song?
#Pirates
#MLB
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Who remembers the Clark Bar?
The candy OR the restaurant?
It was the first American "combination" candy bar to achieve nationwide success. Two similar candy bars followed the Clark Bar, the Butterfinger bar (1923) made by the Curtiss Candy Company, & the 5th Avenue bar (1936) created by Luden's. 🖤💛🍫
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OTD (6/24/88):
Perhaps Andy Van Slyke’s greatest catch!
Walk: "I'd already decided it was a gapper.I was trying to decide which base to go back up."
Slick:"the best catch I've made since I've been in the majors."
🎥: 1988
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
Highlights Video
#LetsGoBucs
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OTD 6/26/2001
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
manager Lloyd McClendon becomes the first person in MLB history to “steal” first base!
#LetsGoBucs
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Can I see some of your favorite Pirates cards/memorabilia?
My power is out and there’s half a foot of snow outside lol
I’ll start with one of my favorite recent pickups… my first Oneil Cruz autograph
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If you could change the result of one play in sports history what is your choice?
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OTD 4/1/1987:
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
GM Syd Thrift traded popular C Tony Peña to the
#Cardinals
for 3 young players who would kickstart the
#Buccos
’ return to glory: Mike Dunne, Mike LaValliere & Andy Van Slyke!
(📼 “Turn of the Century”)
#LetsGoBucs
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Barry Bonds was responsible for carrying
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
Mgr Jim Leyland off the field twice: in 1990 (w/Smiley) & again in 92 (w/McClendon).
In 2017, Bonds said:
“I would have went through a brick wall for that man. And still would.”
#LetsGoBucs
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Former
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
manager Jim Leyland is up for election to the
#HallofFame
!
Here’s Andy Van Slyke, Sean Casey, Gary Sheffield, Barry Bonds, & more on Jim’s legendary clubhouse blow-ups 😡 😤:
#LetsGoBucs
#Tigers
#Marlins
#Rockies
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OTD 35 years ago 8/25/88:
#Pittsburgh
#Steelers
founder Art Rooney Sr. passes away.
Speaking to The Fan earlier this year, Jim Leyland remembered fondly how “The Chief” would visit him during his 1st very difficult season as
#Pirates
manager in 1986:
#LetsGoBucs
#HereWeGo
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Hello, friends, and a pleasant good afternoon to you from Three Rivers Stadium 🏟 !
Andy Van Slyke delivers today’s starting lineup, in a way only he can do😂, for your 1992
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
!
#LetsGoBucs
🏴☠️
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HBD 🎂 (10/5/1965) number soixante-six Mario Lemieux!
Thanks for bringing Lord Stanley’s Cup for a visit to Three Rivers Stadium 🏟 back in summer of 1992!
#LetsGoPens
#Pittsburgh
#Penguins
#LeMagnifique
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Everybody remembers
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
Andy Van Slyke’s amazing diving catches, but the 5x Gold Glover also had one of the strongest CF throwing arms I’ve ever seen.Slick tells us the secrets to throwing that earned him the honor of Fleer baseball cards “Rifleman”.
#LetsGoBucs
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OTD in 1989 - Bobby McFerrin wins the “Song of the Year” Grammy for his big hit “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” 😃
Here’s
#Pittsburgh
#Pirates
Jose Lind, Dave Rucker, and Morris Madden performing McFerrin’s song 🎵 on the 1988 Highlights video “Proud Again”
#LetsGoBucs
🏴☠️
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