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Before 1887, professional baseball teams in the Pittsburgh area were independent business organizations that barnstormed throughout the region and are not affiliated with any organized leagues although their managers and players received compensation. In 1882, the strongest team in the area joined the American Association (AA) as a founding member. Its home field was in Allegheny City, which was located across the Allegheny River from Pittsburgh. The team was listed as “Allegheny” in the standings and sometimes nicknamed “Alleghenys” in the same generic way that teams from Boston, New York, and Chicago were referred to, respectively, as the “Bostons,” “New Yorks,” and “Chicagos” in the sports writing style of the period.
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See James Quirk and Rodney D. Fort, Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992), and Gerald W. Scully, The Business of Major League Baseball (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1989).
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Each MLB team has a franchise timeline. Regarding contents in this chapter, the source is http://www.pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com.
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For the franchise’s history by MLB season, review the Official Major League Baseball Fact Book 2005 Edition (St. Louis, MO: Sporting News, 2005) and “Teams,” http://www.baseball-reference.com cited 28 January 2015.
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Robert Nutting, Chairman,” http://www.pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com cited 9 August 2015.
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Read “The Business of Baseball,” http://www.forbes.com cited 28 January 2015 and “Major League Baseball Valuations,” http://www.bloomberg.com cited 2 February 2015.
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Paul Swaney, “2014 MLB Ballpark Experience Rankings,” http://www.stadiumjourney.com cited 23 February 2015.
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Reference Barry Janoff, “Report: When It Comes to 2014 MLB Fans, the Most Loyal Group is the Cards,” http://www.nysportsjournalism.com cited 23 February 2015.
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Two business articles about the Pirates franchise are Eric Fisher, “Payoff for the Pirates,” SportsBusiness Journal (23 September 2013): 1 and John W. Miller, “The Count: Pirates Seeing More Booty in the Seats,” Wall Street Journal (14 August 2014): D6.
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Jozsa, F.P. (2016). Pittsburgh Pirates. In: National League Franchises: Team Performances Inspire Business Success . SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25993-2_9
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