The Bucs!: The Story of the Pittsburgh Pirates

by John McCollister, Ralph Kiner (Foreword by)

Each generation of Pirate fans has been blessed with a pantheon of Honus Wagner, Pie Traynor, Bill Mazeroski, Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell.

Genres: Baseball

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Lew · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a nice pictorial history of the Pittsburgh Pirates from their beginnings through the 1997 season. It has a good collection of photos. In hindsight, there is unfortunately too much optimism in the last chapter of the book. Unfortunately, no one knew that the 1997 season was the high water mark during the Pirates record breaking twenty losing seasons (matched only in 2012 before ending the streak in 2013). This book does show that the Pirates to do have a rich history of being successful. This is must for any die hard Pirate fans library. Beat 'em, Bucs!

[Mark Richardson · Rating 3 out of 5]

This brief history of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team spans the period from the team's founding in the late nineteenth century through the 2015 season. It is a coffee-table book, replete with lots of fabulous photographs, but the length of the book and the breadth of the subject that it covers textually, far exceeds that of most such formatted publications. It doesn't go into lots of season-by-season detail, as may be expected, but it gives us most of the organization's historical highlights.

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very good history of the Pirates which includes a lot of photos.