About this episode

The episode discusses the 1997 Pittsburgh Pirates and their surprising performance during a complete team rebuild.

In 1997, the Pirates jettisoned all of their remaining players from the division winning teams of the early 1990’s to start a complete rebuild. They were left with a collection of nobodies with a payroll which topped out at a mere $9 million! Yet improbably, this team took the National League by storm and delivered a near miraculous result for its fans. REWIND is a series of our favorite Pittsburgh Sports Memories episodes that we will be dropping in between new episodes Get our Steelers-Ra...

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Hosts: Tim, Steve

Topics covered

• Pittsburgh Pirates
• 1997 baseball season
• team rebuild
• sports history
• National League

Keywords

• Pittsburgh Pirates
• 1997
• baseball
• rebuild
• National League
• sports memories
• Tim and Steve

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Organizations: Pirates

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