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The 1954 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 73rd season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise; the 68th in the National League. The Pirates finished eighth and last in the league standings with a record of 53–101.
This list is complete and up-to-date as of August 15, 2024. The following is a list of players, both past and current, who appeared at least in one game for the Pittsburgh Pirates National League franchise (1891–present), previously known as the Pittsburgh Alleghenys (1882–1890)
On Opening Day, April 13, the Pittsburgh Pirates [a] and St. Louis Cardinals became the ninth and tenth teams in professional baseball to break the color line when they fielded Curt Roberts and Tom Alston, respectively; the Cincinnati Redlegs became the 11th team just four days later when they fielded future Nino Escalera and Chuck Harmon ...
Prior to the 1954 Pittsburgh Pirates season, the local black community in Pittsburgh pressured the team to integrate their roster, as other teams such as the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants had done. [8] To speed up the integration, the black community began to protest against the Pirates and boycotted Pirate home games. [8]
Catcher Joey Bart was added to the Pittsburgh Pirates' roster on Wednesday after he was acquired in a trade with the San Francisco Giants, the club that took him with the No. 2 overall pick in the ...
While the team's recent struggles compared to Pittsburgh's other two teams can be partly to blame (since the Pirates last World Series championship in 1979, the Steelers have won the Super Bowl 3 times (XIV, XL, and XLIII) and the Penguins the Stanley Cup five times in 1991, 1992, 2009, 2016, and 2017, including both in 2009), distractions off ...
Seven-time All-Star reliever Aroldis Chapman is reportedly signing with the Pittsburgh Pirates, FanSided's Robert Murray and MLB Network's Jon Heyman report. The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal reports ...
Daughters of the late Sam Jethroe, who spent most of his adult life in Erie, recently learned their father's Negro Leagues statistics have been added to Major League Baseball's record book.