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The Gasparilla Pirate Festival (often simply referred to as Gasparilla [1] / ˌ ɡ æ s p ə ˈ r ɪ l ə / ⓘ) is a large parade and a host of related community events held in Tampa, Florida, United States, most years since 1904. [2]
Others have names inspired by the mythical pirate, most notably the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League, who began play in 1976. [44] Another sports-related example is the Gasparilla Bowl , a college football bowl game which has been played at the Bucccaneers' home field of Raymond James Stadium since 2018.
Revelers clad in pirate finery packed Tampa's waterfront Saturday as a flotilla of boats arrived for the city's annual Gasparilla Pirate Fest. Led by Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla, the invading ...
The nickname "Pewter Pirates" also became trendy. The Buccaneers staged a ceremony at The Pier on April 7, 1997, in which Bucco Bruce walked the plank of the pirate ship Bounty docked in Tampa Bay. But not before he was pardoned at the last minute by Governor Lawton Chiles. [234] [256]
About 150,000 people gathered on Bayshore Boulevard for the annual Children’s Gasparilla Parade.
The third-largest annual parade in the United States, Tampa's Gasparilla Pirate Fest, held every January, draws hundreds of thousands to live out their swashbuckling fantasies and party like a pirate.
On August 14, 2018, Baz was acquired by the Tampa Bay Rays as a player to be named later from an earlier trade in which the Pirates also sent Tyler Glasnow and Austin Meadows to the Rays for Chris Archer. [15] The Rays assigned him to the Princeton Rays of the Appalachian League. [16]
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