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The Pittsburg Pirates was the name of three short-lived historic minor league baseball teams, based in Pittsburg, Kansas.
The first Pirates' team played in 1909 as a member of the class-C Western Association. They played for a single season, compiling a 52-73 record, and finishing seventh of the eight teams in the league.[1]: 572–573
An unrelated second Pittsburg Pirates team played in the class-D Southwestern League for the 1921 season. They played for a single season, compiling a 87-63 record, and finishing third in the eight-team league.[1]: 533
The third and final Pirates team existed for a half-season. From 1946 through 1951, the Pittsburg Browns played in the Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri League. Before the 1952 season, the Browns moved to Independence, Kansas, leaving Pittsburg without a team. On July 7, 1952, in the middle of the season, the Bartlesville Pirates, a minor league affiliate of the Pittsburgh (PA) Pirates in the Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri League, relocated from Bartlesville, Oklahoma to Pittsburg. They played the remainder of their season as the Pittsburg Pirates, finishing with a 59-65 record, and losing a one-game playoff to the Miami Eagles. The team, along with the rest of the league, folded after the 1952 season.[1]: 359
Season-by-season
[edit]| Year | Record | Finish | League | Manager | Playoffs |
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| 1909 | 52-73 | 7th | Western Association | Elmer Meredith[citation needed] | No playoffs |
| 1921 | 87-63 | 3rd | Southwestern League | Frank Matthews[citation needed] | No playoffs |
| 1952 | 59-65[a] | 4th | KOM League | -- | Lost 1-0 to Miami |
Notes
[edit]- ↑ Record includes games played as the Bartlesville Pirates before the team's July 7 relocation to Pittsburg.
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Sumner, Benjamin Barrett (2000). Minor league baseball standings : all North American leagues, through 1999. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-0781-1. Retrieved June 2, 2025.
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