Pittsburg Pirates (minor league)

Pittsburg Pirates
Pittsburg Pirates
(1909, 1921, 1952); Pittsburg, Kansas ;
Minor league affiliations
Previous classes	Class D (1921); Class C (1909);
Previous leagues	Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri League (1952); Southwestern League (1921); Western Association (1909);
Major league affiliations
Previous teams	Pittsburgh Pirates (1952);
Minor league titles
League titles	None

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

Year	Record	Finish	League	Manager	Playoffs
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

^ Record includes games played as the Bartlesville Pirates before the team's July 7 relocation to Pittsburg.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c 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.

[2] Record includes games played as the Bartlesville Pirates before the team's July 7 relocation to Pittsburg.

[Sumner-1] 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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