{"id":37860,"date":"2019-07-03T14:05:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T14:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=37860"},"modified":"2019-07-03T14:05:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T14:05:43","slug":"sports-why-is-pittsburgh-baseball-team-called-the-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/sports-why-is-pittsburgh-baseball-team-called-the-pirates\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports: why is Pittsburgh baseball team called the Pirates?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about American sports history: the tutor looks up how the Pittsburgh Pirates came to be so-called.<\/h2>\n<p>\nIn my experience, sports people are clever in subtle ways. Therefore, I was sure the name Pirates would have an interesting story behind it, which it does.<\/p>\n<p>\nBack in 1891, the Pittsburgh Alleghenys baseball team hired talent from other teams in a way called &#8220;piratical&#8221; by the teams whose players they lured away. The name was so compelling, the Alleghenys adopted it, becoming the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1891:)\n<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/sports\/pirates\/2013\/10\/03\/Let-s-Learn-From-the-Past-How-the-Pirates-got-their-name\/stories\/201310030085\">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about American sports history: the tutor looks up how the Pittsburgh Pirates came to be so-called. In my experience, sports people are clever in subtle ways. Therefore, I was sure the name Pirates would have an interesting story behind &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/sports-why-is-pittsburgh-baseball-team-called-the-pirates\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sports: why is Pittsburgh baseball team called the Pirates?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2450],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37862,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37860\/revisions\/37862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}