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Byline: Justin Guerriero Dec. 3Hard-throwing left-handed reliever Aroldis Chapman signed with the Boston Red Sox, according to multiple news reports. Chapman, who joined the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2024 on a [...]

Byline: Jerry DiPaola Sep. 25In the eighth inning of the seventh game of the 1960 World Series, Casey Stengel replaced relief pitcher Bobby Shantz with Jim Coates. The New York [...]

Byline: Brian C. Rittmeyer May 20Milene Mazeroski, wife of legendary Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski, has died. Milene, 85, died early Sunday morning in Lansdale, Pa., according to the [...]

Byline: Joe Rutter Mar. 19The Great One continues to live up to his moniker on the memorabilia market. Roberto Clemente's game-worn jersey from the 1960 World Series sold for $256,714 [...]

Byline: Mike Palm Dec. 4Former Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Cole Tucker has a new position to play: husband. The Pirates' first-round draft pick in 2014 married 'High School Musical' actress Vanessa [...]

Byline: Jerry DiPaola Dec. 3Jim Leyland, who managed the Pittsburgh Pirates for 11 seasons and led the team to three National League Eastern Division championships and berths in three consecutive [...]

Byline: Kevin Gorman Sep. 12The phone call had Roberto Clemente Jr. in tears when his brother Luis shared how powerful the experience was to see never-published images of their father, [...]

Byline: Paul Schofield Jul. 21ALTOONA It has been more than 50 years since Roberto Clemente died tragically in a plane crash on New Year's Eve in 1972, but Roberto Clemente [...]

Byline: Brian Murphy Dick Groat, a sure-handed shortstop in baseball and a quick-footed guard in basketball, who was among the few to play both sports professionally but stayed on the [...]

Byline: Kevin Gorman Apr. 17Donald George Leppert spent four decades in baseball, and some of his most memorable moments in a lifetime filled with them came while playing for and [...]

Byline: Kevin Gorman Jan. 16Frank Thomas got to live a childhood dream as a Pittsburgh native who became a three-time All-Star slugger for the Pirates in the 1950s before being [...]

Byline: Kevin Gorman Jan. 18When Joel Hanrahan left the Pittsburgh Pirates organization after five seasons not long after being honored as their top minor league coach he tweeted that he [...]

Byline: Kevin Gorman Jan. 11Eddie Basinski was a classically trained violinist who drew acclaim and the nickname The Fiddler, and later in life found more fame as baseball's second-oldest living [...]

Byline: Kevin Gorman Dec. 6Danny Murtaugh, who managed the Pittsburgh Pirates to World Series championships in 1960 and '71, fell short of being voted into the National Baseball Hall of [...]

Byline: Kevin Gorman Nov. 23The leadoff hitter and Gold Glove center fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates' 1960 World Series champions who became a major-league manager of four teams, Bill Virdon [...]

Byline: Kevin Gorman Nov. 5The Pittsburgh Pirates celebrated the 50th anniversary of their 1971 World Series champions, the first team in major league history to field an all-Black starting lineup. [...]

Byline: Jerry DiPaola May 18Rennie Stennett, who made history with the Pittsburgh Pirates with the bat and a two-time World Series champion with the Pittsburgh Pirates, died Tuesday morning in [...]

Byline: Kevin Gorman Apr. 14After tossing the first no-hitter in San Diego Padres history Friday, donating a hat and ball to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and having a [...]

Matty Alou, a left-handed slap-hitting outfielder who won a batting championship as a Pittsburgh Pirate and who as a San Francisco Giant once shared an outfield with his brothers Felipe [...]

Byline: Jerry DiPaola Sept. 06--Pirates catcher Chris Snyder, who is on the 60-day disabled list after undergoing his second back surgery in two years in June, said Monday he will [...]