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Message: [QUOTE="Steelerone, post: 3490372, member: 8313"] Donaldoowop, it is Dickson. In 1951 he was 20-16 with the Pirates and two years later he was 10-20. That is deceiving because the Bucs were the bottom of the barrel at the time. They had Ralph Kiner and nothing else. Dickson also was used often as a pinch hitter because they had such mediocre hitting. In the mid fifties Branch Rickey took over as GM and built them back up. The first thing he did was to draft a young player the Dogers were trying to hide, I think is name was Clemente. It's not coincidence that they used the Pirates as the team in the movie "Angels In The Outfield." [/QUOTE]