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Former Pirates Player And Manager Bill Virdon Dies At 90 - CBS
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The Team That Changed Baseball: Roberto Clemente and the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates
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Remembering the '71 Pirates, 'the team that changed baseball
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Gene Clines, part of Pirates' 1971 World Series winner and MLB's
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Don Leppert, 1B coach for World Series Pirates, dies at 91
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Happy 50th Anniversary to 1971 Pirates World Series champions