Pittsburgh Pirates

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The Pittsburgh Pirates are a professional Major League Baseball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Central Division of the National League. They have won five World Series championships. The Pirates are also often called the Bucs or the Buccos. This is because the word "buccaneer" is slang for pirate.

The Pirates had success in the early 1990s. However, between 1993 and 2012, the Pirates did not have a winning season.^[1]

1. ↑ Ted Berg (September 9, 2013). "9 painful moments from the Pirates' 20 losing seasons". ftw.usatoday.com. Retrieved 19 April 2017.