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1973 Sherbrooke Pirates baseball program from the Eastern League

Sherbrooke Pirates

The Sherbrooke Pirates were the Class AA farm club of the Pittsburgh Pirates for two seasons in the early 1970’s.  Pittsburgh moved their Eastern League farm club to Sherbrooke from Waterbury, Connecticut in 1972. This was part of a larger Eastern League push into the province of Quebec during the era.  By 1972 three of the circuit’s eight clubs were located in French Canada. Pittsburgh had a strong farm system at the time, with future Major League All-Stars Tony Armas and Kent Tekulve spending time in Sherbrooke on their way to The Show.

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1975 Charleston Pirates baseball program from the Western Carolinas League

Charleston Pirates & Charleston Patriots

The Pittsburgh Pirates had a single-A farm club in Charleston, South Carolina for six summers from 1973 to 1978.  The ball club played at College Park at the corner of Grove Street and Rutledge Avenue.  The team was a member of the old Western Carolinas League (1960-1979). The team was known as the Pirates from 1973 to 1975 and again in the club’s final season of 1978. But in 1976 and 1977 the team was known as the “Patriots” and wore red, white & blue uniforms.

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