[Ads-l] Origin of Pittsburgh Pirates nickname

[Dan Goncharoff]

Better Pirates of Penzance that No No Nanette...

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018, 4:24 PM Peter Reitan <pjreitan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I recently posted an article about the origin of the Pittsburgh Pirates'
> nickname.  The general story is well known - Pittsburgh "stole" (allegedly
> - they were exonerated) some players - therefore "Pirates."  The story is a
> bit more complex than that; there were a lot of pirates and accusations of
> piracy flying around at the time.  Humorously, when the name Pirates
> finally caught on with Pittsburgh, it was borrowed from lyrics from the
> Pirates of Penzance, "It is, it is, a glorious thing, to be, to be a Pirate
> King."
>
> https://esnpc.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-pittsburgh-pirates-of-penzance.html
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On Oct 15, 2018 4:24 PM, "Peter Reitan" <pjreitan at hotmail.com> wrote:

I recently posted an article about the origin of the Pittsburgh Pirates'
nickname.  The general story is well known - Pittsburgh "stole" (allegedly
- they were exonerated) some players - therefore "Pirates."  The story is a
bit more complex than that; there were a lot of pirates and accusations of
piracy flying around at the time.  Humorously, when the name Pirates
finally caught on with Pittsburgh, it was borrowed from lyrics from the
Pirates of Penzance, "It is, it is, a glorious thing, to be, to be a Pirate
King."

https://esnpc.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-pittsburgh-pirates-of-penzance.html


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