The Battlin' Bucs: The First Century of the Pirates 

This hits hard being a modern day Pirates fan 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️❤️⚾️

to me, the greatest Pittsburgh Pirates Season was 1909 because of Honus Wagner, and they win 110 games that season and won the World Series. Great Video.

This is amazing. It's sometimes hard to remember our legacy in the modern era. Nutting hates the team and its painful. That being said - our history is impressive and one of the coolest in the league.

Of all the videos I've watched, this is definitely one of them. 💪🤠👍

The Pirates are very underrated as a historical franchise. Honus Wagner, Clemente, Stargell, Blyleven, etc...5 World Series Titles, retained the same name since 1891.

Stargell should have been MVP in '71. Love that clip of Casey!!

I remember seeing this VHS in a Pirates program in 1996, and I've wanted to see it since then. Thank you so much for uploading this.

Greatest franchise ever. All my childhood heroes....even today. So proud of this team

Gino Cimoli after Game 7: "They got all the records and we won the game."

I was at a game where Stargell hit one over the right field roof in Forbes Field. The only other player to ever do it was The Babe.

gotta love those 80's montages.

R.I.P.: Willie “Pops” Stargell Coming from a Boston Red Sox Fan

I'm so glad this didn't show the '92 NLCS. And I'm glad I'll be dead by the time they show it in the 2nd 100 yrs video.

1) 1903 wasn't the only 9 game World Series. 1919-1921 were also 9 game Series. 2) They should have mentioned Roberto earlier than they did! Drafting him from the Dodgers in 1954 was one of the best things that ever happened to the franchise! Still, on the whole, I enjoyed this documentary. I would have liked to see them keep Syd Thrift longer than they did. Yeah there are finances to contend with, but the early 90's Bucs could really have been great. As it was, they were good, but losing the NLCS 3 times in a row and then going into oblivion was really frustrating.

Roberto Clemente helped the Pirates win the 71 World Series

Good to see you uploading more rare docs. Thanks for the gems!

Cool documentary

It's sad really, 1979, the last Hurrah. 45 year Drought

The only unhatable team in the mlb and the one team truly defining the essence of the game until today.

20-8 in first place in the NL Central and first in the entire National League!

Think of how many home runs Kiner would have hit ef he hadn't played in the longest outfield in baseball.

Great info. A little flawed but no big deal.

The 1970’s was most definitely The Pirates Greatest Time of Their Franchise. It was just too bad that The 1970’s Decade was pretty much dominanted by “The Big Red Machine”(Cincinnati Reds) as they defeated the Pirates 3 Times in the NLCS(1970, 1972 and 1975), but the Pirates got them back in 1979 en route to Their Last World Series Championship. Since 1979 the Pittsburgh Pirates haven’t had A Sniff of the World Series, with the exception of 1991 and 1992 when they lost to Atlanta in 7 Games Both of those Seasons.

They continued to play 9 games WS' though the 1919s

the stars of 1993 thing aged well, but 2021.....oof, well have to wait for 68

This is in a box on vhs in my mom’s basement somewhere

It's a shame that syd Thirft bulid a good team in the 80s and then cam bonfiay and the owners got cheap and the Pirates lost for 20 years in a row.

56:21 The stars of 2021. Well there was Bryan Reynolds and that’s it.

Wagner = One of the First Five!

Let's go Bucs

Vernon Law is the greatest pitcher in Pirates history.

The Pirates made a crucial error I always thought by not putting Owner Barney Dreyfuss (1865-1932) in their first inaugural HOF class in 2022. They made a point of having all the Pirate HOFers (incl NL Crawfords & Grays) in that class. Barney Dreyfuss albeit long overdo was finally elected to the Baseball Hall Of Fame in 2008. They didn't rectify that slight last year either. He belongs there. No Barney Dreyfuss = no Pirate team history at all.

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You can actually hear the producers of this say when they couldn't get around Clemente: "...just do not call them african american, call them latin!" Yes, this here documentary is pretty dated, but you US americans are still the same or maybe worse on dealing with your history. When will you finally accept that those products of slaveship are the true foundation and soul defining your nation? There is so much to talk about, all bits and bytes in this world could not cover your issues. And if kneeling during your national anthem finally shakes your world, so be it!

gotta love those 80's montages.