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PNC Park hosted the 77th Major League Baseball All-Star Game on July 11, 2006. [76] The American League defeated the National League 3–2, with 38,904 spectators in attendance. [77] The first All-Star Game in PNC Park, it was the 5th All-Star Game hosted in Pittsburgh, and the first since 1994. [78]
Overall, the performance seemed a tad tamer than Green Day's 2021 PNC Park concert, or prior performances at the Petersen Events Center (2017) and the then-Consol Energy Center (2013).
Since 2001, the Pirates have played their home games at PNC Park, located on the banks of the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh's North Side neighborhood. The park was built as a replacement for the aging Three Rivers Stadium , a dual-purpose stadium that had been designed for functionality rather than aesthetics. [ 20 ]
As the lease on PNC Park creeps toward expiration, a new black and gold billboard looms over the Boulevard of the Allies at Grant Street with the rallying cry “Abandon ship, Bob! Sell the team.”
A proposal for a new sports stadium in Pittsburgh was first made in 1948; however, plans did not attract much attention until the late 1950s. [9] The Pittsburgh Pirates played their home games at Forbes Field, which opened in 1909, [10] and was the second oldest venue in the National League (Philadelphia's Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium was oldest, having opened only two months prior to Forbes).
Early NL Central leader Milwaukee begins a four-game set at PNC Park on Monday night. Jones, just 22 himself, will get the ball with a chance to take another step forward and halt his team's slide.
Bucs: The Story of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Lenexa, Kansas: Addax Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-886110-40-3. McCollister, John (2008). The good, the bad, and the ugly Pittsburgh Pirates: heart-pounding, jaw-dropping, and gut-wrenching moments from Pittsburgh Pirates history. Chicago: Triumph Books. ISBN 978-1-57243-982-5. Mendelson, Abby (2005).
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